Some time last year I decided that I am not going to vote in this year's elections. I also celebrated the fact that I am not a citizen of Australia. You see, down under, if you choose not to exercise your democratic right to pick which bunch you would like to abuse your loyalty, you are guilty of a crime, punishable by a fine. So, just because I could (well mainly because I could not decide which party to vote for) I decided that I am not going to vote and I am not even going to bother to register to vote (I moved provinces).
My dearest wife (bless her head and heart) insisted that I go register and if I still did not want to vote come election time, I am free to sit at home and watch democracy work - on television. With an interest in keeping my sleeping arrangements amicable, I went along with her and registered to vote. In addition to amicable (in fact better than amicable) sleeping arrangements, I am now able to change my mind and to vote, that is if I still feel that way come election day.
The source of my reluctance to vote in the forthcoming elections is as I stated, confusion. You know that state you find your self in when your mind seeks to override your heart's desire to strip all white people of their rights and possessions? That and only that was the reason I had decided some time last year that I was not going to vote. My confusion however, was caused by my ill-advised attempt at application of rational solutions to irrational problems. Allow me to explain:
You see, in the two previous occassions when I had been called on to do my civil duty and return the ANC to power, I had done so on a simple but irrational determination based on nothing other than the determination that this country must never again be run by white people. Call it racist if you will but this kept it straight and simple for me and off I went and voted for the government of the ANC.
This time I started or rather attempted a rational deliberation of my decision to vote for this or the other party. Of course some 95 percent of the parties standing for election were not even considered. I don't care what appellation I earn for it but I will not in a milllion and one years vote for anything led by Kenneth Meshoe or Rajbansi. I don't care what they say, I never listen and never will.
So I started to consider that which I know about the parties; that which my friends and family say about the parties; that which I find in the media (both print and electronic); that which I find on the internet; and so on and so forth. To illustrate: I learned that whatever spin anyone puts on it, the communists are in charge of the ANC; I learned that however hard Helen Zille screams non-racialism and democracy, she in fact means and can only mean protection of white values; I learned that Bantu Holomisa, Gatsha Buthelezi, Patricia De Lille, etc. all need a job and will do what they have to do. I learned that the image of the ANC is shot and pretty much in tatters. Now, I hope you are painfully aware of my situation. I am without a party to vote for so I cannot vote - at least that is the position I found myself in resulting in the decision not to vote or even to register to vote.
All of this was to come to an abrupt about face though. And it all happened this morning on my way to work. I was mindin my own business, listening to SAFM (half listening actually) when suddenly I heard a voice, a voice that has always caused rage to course my veins and hatred to replace what is ordinarily a fairly balanced humane constitution. I heard the voice of FREDERICK WILLEM DE KLERK. Yes him! The at-one-stage-almost-professor-of-administrative-law-at-Potchefstroomse-Universiteit-Vir-Christelike-Hoer-Onderwys. Yes him! The one time minister of education who said only a limited number of kaffirs permitted on this, that and the other university - and for those other universities, only kaffirs. Yes him.
I heard FREDERICK WILLEM DE KLERK say that we must protect the constitution, that Zuma must not do anything to damage the constitution, must not create unlawful hegemony, must stop the unlawful deployment of cadres. I waited for him to add "like we nationalists did . . ." and he never did. I went into a rage.
There and then, during that irrational rage I decided: fuck it, I'm going to vote and yes I am going to get me a government I deserve!
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I hope your irrationality tells you not to vote for the ANC or DA. Please waste your vote on any of the parties except those two....
ReplyDeleteFREDERICK WILLEM DE KLERK is full of pasta. He now wants to put the blacks in their place.
ReplyDeleteWhy was he so quite when Silvio Berlusconi sought re-election. Berlusconi also had charges hanging over him, and was a threat to the Italian legal framework ( he legislated that you could not prosecute a Prime Minister (or senior elected politician) while in office, to evade his own prosecution). FREDERICK WILLEM DE KLERK had every right, if he has such a thing, to comment and become a critic of Berlusconi's blatant interference with the law, because he is a Nobel laureate, and married to an Italian wife he stole from his one-time friend ( a very wealthy one at that), in a broom cupboard in the latter's ship, while he and the late Marike were hosted there. But he wouldn't dare, you see, because Berlusconi is not a boy. He does not get told what to do by a Baas. But the Baas can tell Zuma what to do.
But he is wrong you see, because the Zuma I know, knows how to fight his own battles. He fought against the Baas for more than three decades. FREDERICK WILLEM DE KLERK can be as loud as he wishes to be about how Zuma governs, but he must be careful, because just now he may find himself married to Mr. Khumalo's daughter (if he ever gets invited onto Khumalo's yatch in the Mediterranean) and then he would have criticized a "Zulu" President. What then ?
So.... who are you going to vote for?
ReplyDeleteI am trying to decide between COPE and the ACDP myself. Neither of them make me too overjoyed, but hey!
Makokwe - I don't really want to be defending FW, certainly not on all counts. But on the Berlusconi thing: I would think de Klerk just wasn't bothered to comment on corrupt Italian politicians. Or more probably, he just doesn't know much about what is going on there.