Your vote matters: South Africa cannot afford electoral apathy
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Tomorrow, South Africans will elect their municipal councils.
Broken promises have made the ballot feel less like an instrument of change than a receipt for disappointment.
But choosing not to vote because “politicians are all the same” will not punish failed politicians in the way frustrated citizens hope.
It will merely leave the choice of who governs to somebody else. And govern they will. And it will not matter whether some people voted for them or not, they will stil
Broken promises have made the ballot feel less like an instrument of change than a receipt for disappointment.
But choosing not to vote because “politicians are all the same” will not punish failed politicians in the way frustrated citizens hope.
It will merely leave the choice of who governs to somebody else. And govern they will. And it will not matter whether some people voted for them or not, they will stil
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