This is my drive for ’08.
Being on holiday this December I was often asked about my opinion on the whole “Zuma thing”. Zuma thing, hmmm is it a “thing”, methinks not. Anyways, it’s as if working at Financial Mail allows me some air of opinion about topics relating to politics and finances.
So I’ve been asked about South Africa alot and politics alot and the state of the nation, ALOT. I need to have an opinion, especially being the “SA Rocks guy”. And I do have an opinion.
Mainly my opinion does not focus on Zuma at all. And I think that this is a major flaw in many people’s approach to SA and politics in this country.
What can you recall about SA politics in ’07? Let me take a stab at your answer: the ANC. Now keeping in mind that any publicity is good publicity I would like to propose that when it comes to voting in ’09 many people will have one party on their minds, you guessed it, the ANC.
So basically my opinion for the country and for ’08/’09 is voter education and marketing. I think that parties need to market themselves correctly (Helen and the DA did this fairly well in ’07 with the videos and vlogging and things) and educate voters correctly too. I understand the clear and present dangers between education and marketing and the two become blurred.
But I maintain that one of the largest problems is that the general populace needs to know who they can vote for, what the parties stand for, where they can vote and most importantly why your vote counts.
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