Posted on 05/06/2014 11:24:00 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Phakisho Mojaplo, 20, belongs to a new generation of South Africans who never experienced firsthand the harsh system of white minority rule that ended in 1994, and will vote in national elections for the first time on Wednesday. She is deeply dissatisfied with what she describes as a growing culture of elitism and corruption in her country despite its new freedoms and other advances during her lifetime.
Chief among Mojaplo’s grievances is her sense that the ruling African National Congress, which is expected to win re-election with a possibly reduced majority, has betrayed the commitments to clean governance and basic services for all citizens that it championed when it took power in South Africa’s first all-race elections two decades ago. But the anti-establishment sentiment of many young South Africans, grouped under the post-apartheid label of “born frees,” is unlikely to cut deeply into ruling party support at the polls because a large number have not registered to vote. …
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What a shocker. Not
“has betrayed the commitments to clean governance and basic services for all citizens that it championed when it took power in South Africa’s first all-race elections two decades ago”
LOL! Did they forget what continent they are attached to?
I guess running a 1st world country is a lot harder than it looks...other then into the ground.
It’s amazing how the AP minions manage to see the obvious.
Only around N years after we conservatives do.
(Where N is a very large number.)
The tribal history ensures nothing will work. Zulu members will not work for any other tribe, etc etc.
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