May 2019 will bring a major shift in our politics
THE road to power is paved with hypocrisy and all the major political parties have lost their moral values to the affluence that comes with power and materialism.
We are a nation in total disarray. Petrol price hikes, e-tolls, load shedding accompanied by higher energy bills, ruthless corruption and endemic violent crime will have a major impact on the electorate in 2019.
An upheaval of major proportions in the political arena will herald a dynamic new era of accountable governance, but we satiate our fantasies for power by discussing policies that are obsolete.
All the major political parties are guilty of hypocrisy and doublespeak.
As a democracy, public policy is contaminated and diminished by the actions of the three major parties.
But in this election a new political order will emerge, with a huge mandate to reconstruct this battered nation.
People across the country want positive change. The current political climate has left the country politically divided, with nihilism on the doorstep of every citizen, save for the wealthy class of tender traders and relatives and friends who became vulgarly rich due to incestuous patronage.
Our political history is replete with examples of why our contaminated politics is a house of cards. Some leaders are base liars, capable of telling colossal untruths regarding state capture.
The dawn of a new political era beckons us. Almost everyone agrees that the elections of 2019 could well be the most interesting and crucial election they will witness in their lifetime.
Several developments suggest that the elections could mark a big shift of the political paradigm and, in that sense, could well mark the true beginning of 21st century politics in the country.
The real objectives of the rulers of the past nine years was political power and plunder.
These politicians have long avowed themselves to be reliable men and women. The dark cloud of this pestilence has been hovering over our political landscape for too long.
The clear message to all parties seems to be that ideologies and party loyalties are not sacred, but what the people want is better governance, greater governmental accountability and better prospects for themselves and their children in this lifetime, not the next.
Those politicians who ignore this trend will be relegated to the dustbin of history. The winds of change have begun to blow and will reach hurricane dimensions in 2019. A battered and impoverished nation is clamouring for genuine change, accountability, honest governance and end to the chaos and deprivation of the last nine years.
The people will exercise their votes on May 8. It will be the power of a virtuous and intelligent people rising in their majesty, to avenge the wrongs of our painful past.
As you enter the polling booths remember the sombre words of George Orwell, who once said: “A people that elects corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices.”