The writer gives reasons why voters shouldn’t consider the ANC. (Amanda Khoza/News24)
The ANC has, over the last two election cycles, presided over a broad collapse of governance, infrastructure and economic performance. It should disqualify the party’s return to government, writes Pieter du Toit.
Next week’s general election is not about apartheid. It is not about the transition to democracy, nor is it about exorcising the demons of our fraught collective past.
President Cyril Ramaphosa and the ANC, South Africa’s governing party since 1994, have built their campaign by telling South Africans about the past 30 years, that the country is a better place than before, and that a better future beckons with them at the helm.
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