XPost: za.politics, za.misc

We've just had local government elections, and to judge from what I've
seen so far, most South Africans seem to find the current crop of
politicians as uninspired and uninspiring as I do, so much so that
more than half the people who were eligible to vote didn't bother
to do so, so we are back to minority rule.

Most people who did vote, however, seem to have voted for the same old
boring politicians that have allowed us to drift to where we are.

I think it's perhaps time for a ministry of all the talents -- the
people who have been sidelined by other political parties because they
were too honest, had too much vision or weren't corrupt enough.

Perhaps people like Jay Naidoo, who tweeted:

Jay Naidoo @Jay_Naidoo
We have to imagine a democracy without political parties at
#localgovernment. I still have not had a single candidate knock on my
door to tell me what they stand for. We are just voting for the
#partybosses to continue to #breakpromises and take us for granted.

And others like Mbazima Shilowa, whose brain-child the Gautrain is the
only passenger rail transport in the country still working properly,
because most of the railway infrastructure elsewhere has been stolen
or vandalised -- on Monday midnight we were woken by gunshots and
shouting and about 10 people with flashing torche3s across the road by
the railway line. Heard next morning that they had arrested three
cable thieves, many wondered that there was anything left for them to
steal -- no passenge trains have run there for at least 18 months.
Shilowa was actually sidelined twice -- first by the ANC and then by
COPE.

Perhaps Mary Metcalfe, former Gauteng MEC for education, who is still campaigning for early childhood education.

Any other nominations?


--
Steve Hayes
http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
http://khanya.wordpress.com

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