It’s too early to judge how this parliament will perform, but the notion that 2024 will be a refresh for our politics must surely be declared stillborn
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.We’ve sold ourselves on the story that these were watershed elections. But beyond the novelty of the ANC’s loss of majority, there is a familiar staleness.
Scroll through the list of MPs and you will easily spot crooks, racists, race-baiters, troublemakers and general malefactors. All the major represented parties are guilty of fielding at least a couple of those categories — with some more egregious than others. There could be no better metaphor than the ANC’s own step-aside rule. Implemented ostensibly as a contrivance to usher in Cyril Ramaphosa’s new dawn of accountability, it has, at best, been used selectively and inconsistently.
A partner in the imminent government of national unity, the Democratic Alliance has also been an easy target on the issue of diversity, or lack thereof, on its list. And it was determined to bring Renaldo Gouws to its benches despite past moronic utterances. It was only after another clip resurfaced of Gouws saying the K-word that the party was compelled to admit that it was “not a fake as initially suspected” and sent him to the naughty corner.
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