SA is in a deep crisis, and voters could stay away – experts
‘It’s going to be a bumpy ride, especially with more undecided voters than previous elections across all the major demographic groups’.
With 37% unemployment, 17 million people on social grants, the cost of electricity going up yesterday, fuel going up tonight at midnight, and the consumer price index and inflation edging upwards, South Africa is in a governance crisis with 37 days to elections.
“The crisis represents the cumulative effects of bad policymaking and corruption over the course of the last decade, and if you cumulatively add up each of the previous years’ non-performance, then you will clearly move into a crisis situation,” political analyst Daniel Silke said yesterday.
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