Readers’ views

Responses to Eat the previously beloved country, 27 April

My superficial and bored-as-hellwith-south-african-politics take on this is that the only change we can expect to see after 29 May is even more Joburg-like bickering about who gets the top jobs and even worse government with ever-faster failure in every category of service delivery, only on a national scale.

Christopher Bedford

I agree with Professor Susan Booysen that our Constitution is safe. None of these political parties will get even close to a two-thirds majority.

MK, even when it joins forces with the EFF, will not attract anything near 20%, regardless of what these polls may say. Our voters are not as stupid as most of you think.

Those who see a coalition of the ANC, MK and EFF are stereotyping these black parties and that is dangerous.

Parties like the DA, Actionsa and others need to seriously focus on their messaging and package themselves as the solution to our current problems.

This concern about MK eating votes from the ANC or EFF or even IFP tells us that these parties’ focus is on a particular section of voters and not the general population of voters, which means that they have already condemned themselves to a minority position in Parliament.

Noel Soyizwaphi

As Winston Churchill was reputed to have said: “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

I cannot fathom how anyone with the slightest ability to understand the facts would vote for Zuma or the ANC.

Inexplicable.

Alan Jeffrey