It's hard to be positive about South Africa when you don't have electricity for half the day, you read news reports that the country is broke, 80 murders a day, unemployment is sky rocketing, and our education system is broken. Most people are left with the helpless feeling there's very little we can do.
But this is where I want to remind you that we are less than a year away from the national election. There is one VERY REAL THING each of us can do and that's get ready to vote. And then we are able to encourage others to do the same.
The problem is, South Africans complain about the status quo and then don't show up the one time they have the power to elect change. It's insane. The truth is, South Africa won't get better unless we do.
The purple part of the circle in this picture is the percentage of people that didn't vote in the last general elections. Basically, more people didn't vote than did vote in 2019. This is apathy at its finest.
If you want to know how the ANC have stayed in power while continuing to destroy everything in sight, it's because there are no consequences to their actions. They get to do as they please, while some vote for them again, and many others stay out of politics entirely.
I know many people who didn't vote, and when I gave them a hard time about it, they said they're not interested in politics. And that's my point, you may want nothing to do with politics, but every facet of politics impacts all of us as citizens, all the time.
So where to from here?
1. It's your job to encourage others to get involved.
2. It's your job to get vocal about change.
3. It's your job to get others to vote.
Or do nothing. Either way, but remember, we collectively get the government we deserve.
PS. I'm begging you to retweet this post. Not for engagement but because you want the same change I do. We have less than a year to go but the time is NOW!
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@FlySafair you are very quick to close the flight / gate to protect your “on time” record (and impose cost on your passengers who are visibly able to make it on board). But NOT so quick to compensate the same passengers when you are late. Just a shrug of the shoulders…
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