Moeletsi Mbeki is spot on (“Why politics is necessary in society”, January 30). What we have now was always meant to be an interim measure. A more directly representative, constituency-based system was supposed to be built after the first election. Only then would SA be a true constitutional democracy and truly free.
Sadly, our politicians (across the spectrum) didn’t want accountability. They still don’t. And most South Africans are just too illiterate and poor to understand or care.
Stuart Meyer
Via BusinessLIVE
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