The author argues that voter apathy has landed us up in our current situation. (Getty Images)
South Africans have allowed a party with the electoral support of less than 30% to dominate politics for three decades because opposition and active political engagement would have been inconvenient. it s time to stop the apathy writes
Hermann Pretorius.
For almost two decades, the government has expanded its powers, smothered the freedom to prosper, and choked the life out of the only thing that can save our country - economic growth.
And through all of this, too many South Africans – led mostly by naïve businessmen who get outsmarted by politicians every second – sit by, almost idly, watching as the horror unfolds, yet always aimlessly hoping that something will go right, someone will step in, or that some entity or country or volkstaat or ethno-collectivist