Just as the light of the resurrection bursts in upon us at Easter, I believe that in SA we are about to receive our second wind and that our forthcoming elections have the potential to be the catalyst of our nation’s renewal, says Archbishop Thabo Makgoba
To build Parliament into a strong institution which holds the executive to account, we should vote on May 8 with the aim of transforming the institutionCall me a slave to hope amid the growing global trend towards the contrary, but the detail and spirit of Easter renews my heart and resolve.
I recall vividly how, during Easter plays at my primary school in Alexandra township, the curtains would be drawn until the moment someone entered with a candle and then the teacher would sweep open the curtains and declare: “Easter has burst into this darkness.” In the gathering spiral of violence that engulfed Northern Ireland for so long, Mairead Corrigan Maguire and Betty Williams refused to bow to scepticism and the logic of revenge and together took a “first step to peace”.
But we have to go through our closed doors before we reach our open doors. We have to get through our noes to get to our yeses. Changing individual leaders is no panacea for all that is wrong with governance in South Africa today. If we examine the state of health of the three main institutions of our government – the judiciary, the executive and the legislature – we see that the judiciary has performed well in the face of the challenges of the past decade.
Moreover, too many members of the governing party hold their leaders to account only when they sense the leader’s influence in their own party is ebbing. Instead I want to suggest that as responsible citizens we all examine carefully the complete list of candidates each party has drawn up.
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