SAElections2019 OPINION: Can we really return to 'normal' after the elections? | RediTlhabi
Retired Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke preside over the Life Esidimeni hearings.
The election noise has been deafening and, it cannot end soon enough. It will die down and life will have to return to normal. But what is normal? What does normal look like? It was the new kids on the block, the Economic Freedom Fighters, whose chants of"pay back the money" shook Parliament and took the matter all the way to the Constitutional Court in 2016. The apex court not only affirmed the powers of the Public Protector but issued a stinging rebuke to the then president and Parliament. It was a seminal moment.
By the time Zuma vacated office, our economy had experienced a steep decline in economic activity. Stats SA reported that GDP had shrunk an annualised 2.2%, the biggest decline in nine years. This obviously spells doom for a country with an unemployment rate that is one of the highest in the world. At 27.5%, it is a national crisis that requires an urgent, coherent intervention, imagination and commitment.
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