To Vote or not to Vote?
TO vote or not to vote is now a question further burdened with the complex plea for a spoilt ballot paper
The case being made is that there is none credible in the menu of the May 7 political contestants to be trusted with your vote.
Judging the country by the best possible standards rather the worst that some seem resigned to live by stands out as the charge for the court of public opinion to preside over. Isolating the ANC and DA for the mess is to miss the boat. The rest of society is just as culpable for allowing the rot to persist in its name.
Dragging the ballot to rule on the matter is former intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils and former deputy health minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge.
Dismissing their ‘no vote’ plea solely on the basis of their shock tactic, could be a revelation of the timidity of ‘yes vote’ proponents to taking forthright stand on a matter the two believe cannot wait any longer. At issue is the running sore of corruption savaging society’s moral fibre piece by piece.
A society demonstrating no political will to fight and win the battle against corruption does little to inspire the value of a ballot giving rite of passage to people assuming positions of public trust.
Kasrils and Madlala-Routledge are the most daring off-tune examples that have reached the end of the road with a democracy showing not ability to exert the will of the people for power to mend its wayward ways for public good.
Call them mad and they will probably take it as much as they have given they have given their shock-treatment position. And when sanity has escaped those in power, it will take the very mad ones to remind society there is no more rationality left to hope for.