OPINIONISTA: Voters must demand access to party candidate lists By Omry Makgoale
As election day approaches, political parties are consolidating their candidate lists, chopping and changing who should be included on or excluded from the final lists before they are declared ahead of the election date.
During the Zuma presidency, with the sole exception of courageous heroine Makhosi Khoza, ANC governing party MPs colluded as South Africa was sold off to the highest bidder. We are treated like children, as if we are not responsible enough to know whether this or that person is trustworthy or a crook. The governing party since the beginning of the universal franchise, the ANC, behaves as if it is our parent and it must make all the choices of MPs on our behalf. It is as if we are too immature or stupid to choose one person instead of another.
For the white voters, it has been a decline from their apartheid era rights, since under apartheid the white voters could directly vote for their own choice of Member of Parliament, to represent them in their local constituency. In 1948, even the previous Prime Minister, General Jan Smuts, who had governed South Africa during World War 2, lost his seat at Standerton in the general election which brought the National Party to power.
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