By Mzukona Mantshontsho
All South Africans will hold national and provincial elections on Wednesday 29 May 22024, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office said on Tuesday 20 February 2024.
“I call on all South Africans to exercise their democratic right to vote and for those who will be campaigning to do so peacefully, within the full observance of the law,” Ramaphosa’s office said.
Political analysts say record power cuts, poor service delivery and high levels of unemployment are likely to hurt the governing African National Congress (ANC) party that Ramaphosa leads at the polls, threatening its parliamentary majority for the first time since the end of apartheid in 1994.
The final voter registration happened on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 February 2024, and there’s 27.4 million eligible voters on the voter’s roll.
Every time new leadership is introduced, it allows for new enthusiasm, innovations, ideas and a change of mindset.
Observing the politics, emotions and theatrics at play every time there is a change in leadership; people react either with enthusiasm or strong resistance.
Our reaction to new leadership is based on the reputation of the existing leadership, combined with expectations and hopes of improvement from the new one.
Either way, the introduction of new leadership brings with it a weird mixture of uncertainty, combined with hope and excitement.
If we do not like our leaders, we must banish them,
If we do not like our government, we must fight to change it,
If we do not like the way things are going, we must speak out and stop it,
Building a great South Africa is the job of each one of us. We can never entrust that to just a few people seated in the comfortable seats of our BURNT parliament – but we can direct them.
