Election campaigns fail to answer the question on all South Africans' minds

ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa and former president Jacob Zuma toast during the African National Congress' 107th anniversary celebrations at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban on January 12, 2019.

The question then is what kind of leadership would favour the nourishing and strengthening of institutions to the benefit of society. It's a question that those seeking political office must answer. Yet, listening to political party campaign messages, one does not get a sense that leadership would be crucial to the success of our country. Political parties and their respective leaders are predominantly interested in telling voters how bad their opponents are.

Parties whose leaders were at different stages in their political careers part of the ANC frame their messages as if they were never in the ANC. When Bantu Holomisa of the United Democratic Movement, Terror Lekota of the Congress of the People, Julius Malema of the Economic Freedom Fighters, the African Transformation Movement's Jimmy Manyi and the African Content Movement's Hlaudi Motsoeneng speak, you would swear they were never card-carrying members of the ANC.

MMkhabel We as a country are so far behind the first world , sweaters and packets of food for votes is so poor man syndromeish ,why can we not push the bench mark ,this poverty and mismatch of the poor is going to shoot us in the foot

MMkhabel Hopefully Cyril Ramaphosa will make time in his busy campaign schedule to announce the 'fate' of the infamous advocates Jiba & Mrwebi SOON. As 'only he' has to come to a decision this cannot be dragged out to post election day !!🤔

MMkhabel The election period demands on all participants to outline a vision in a form of a manifesto then sell their ideas to the electorate, so the one with convincing message will win & at times expose faults of the opponent. I am struggling to understand the point of this opinion

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