Mondli Makhanya: There’s a joker on my ballot

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In democracy, they say more is better & the more parties there are on the ballot, the better it is for plurality. It is also good to have jokers who make us laugh. But when a large part of the ballot paper is made up of these jokers, the funniness abates.

“SRWP calls on the working class in general, and all working class organisations in particular – young, old, unemployed, employed, rural and urban dwellers of all races, sexualities and genders – to support the only political party interested in destroying the exploitative class system that is capitalism and building a society free of oppression and economic exploitation where power will rest in the hands of the majority: socialism,” the party said in one breathless sentence.

We will never fully establish how many of the 22 000 people who voted for SRWP by Friday were Numsa members or just random voters. There is more: “The programme of the Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party is the abolition of the supremacy of the capitalist class, the organisation of workers into a revolutionary working class and the conquest of political power for a truly democratic, united, free and prosperous socialist South Africa.”

Drunk on adulation, she fell into the arms of political opportunists who convinced her that she was on to something special. While the world was getting used to her being at Outa, she dropped another bombshell: she was quitting to focus full time on her academic work with African languages. But before we could deal with the aftershocks of that news, she dropped another surprise by announcing that she was going back to the African Democratic Change party and would be on its parliamentary list.

 

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