OPINION: 💭🗣 In a world increasingly relying on data, South African politics 🗳 still loves doing old-school things. Read more on TheCitizenNews ⤵️
Sadly, there’s even more reason to be dismissive of these new promises.
You’d think that given South Africa has one of the largest cabinets in the world, coinciding with the perpetual lip-service stating what a massive problem load shedding is, something would have been done to fix it ages ago. Either our government is too pathetic to fix the issue or there have been better things to do with its time – like nuking the currency or competing in the World’s Highest Unemployment Rate Championships.
If, however, we got our leadership to state their promises somewhere public and give a criterion on how to judge them on it, the end of the election cycle would be far more interesting. We would also then have a far better scorecard than that given by the media or opposition.
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