We need to face up to the realities required to achieve a country in which the dignity of citizens is restored through jobs and crime-free communities
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Do we relegate the ANC falling under 50% and its dramatic fall to 41% to the rhetoric of the EFF’s Julius Malema and the ethno-chauvinism of the MK party’s Jacob Zuma? What if there was no EFF and MK party, and the ANC got 51%, would that be okay? Of course not, because it would mean the ANC would not have admitted just how much it has let the country down.
The focus has also moved to the form of a coalition arrangement, of which there are a number of possibilities. One option is a government of national unity, similar to that formed in 1994, where the majority parties co-operated and ran the government. It could also be a grand coalition, where two or more parties partner up and run the government.
But it gets worse. All the votes the MK party has mustered are simply regarded as ethnic or tribal votes — Zulus voting for Zulus. In addition to being lazy analysis, this is insulting and wrong. Even if it was an ethnic vote, the question is: what have we been doing as a society or a government to uproot tribalism since 1994?
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