OPINION: Elections must happen, they must happen regularly and must not be interrupted at the whim of political incumbents. The pandemic imposes an obligation on South Africa’s institutions to make elections safe, writes Professor Alex van den Heever.
The imposition of a deadly airborne pandemic has demonstrated its capacity for the total disruption of all normal human interactions.
The absence of elections doesn’t imply the absence of governments. You are just left with governments that lack legitimacy. Power concentrations lead to thuggery. Don’t ever be fooled. And once thuggery is imposed, its removal is hard, often bloody and typically just replaces one thug with another. A country without such institutions divides society into bandits or hostages. Czars or serfs. Warlords and the shivering masses.
To avoid the misconduct of tyrannical wannabes who get elected, we have other institutions – such as the Constitution, enforced by an independent judiciary.
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