Thankfully the election with all its political facile bluster and political hyperbole, is over. The logic is simple. To win elections you must attract the most votes. Most people in SA are black and poor. Those are the votes you need if you are serious about political power. Since 1994, the ANC has held those votes by promising a better life and successfully persuading the masses that it alone delivered them from apartheid which is true. Emboldened by apparent success in increasing its share of the black vote from 1 to 5 percent, the DA is intent on ratcheting up its effords in 2014 and beyond. Affordability is another issue. Thanks mainly to the ANC, a culture has developed whereby, in order to attract votes, promises are made to poor and illiterate populace about how their lives will be improved. I don't think this country can afford to provide housing, water, electricity, healthcare, education etc, on the scale on which it is expected, nor do I suggest that it is only white taxpayers, shunted off into the backround, who are being asked to pay for all this. But SA's crisis of expectations is building inexorably to a climax. Who has the courage to tone it down?
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