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My dear fellow South Africans! I love being South African and I love walking around in and among our people every day and seeing smiling, happy faces everywhere. I love the laughter that abounds in almost every single situation we find ourselves. Despite the depressing news, and the angrier politics, once we're all lumped together, we do get along.
We especially see it bubbling to the surface during major events, ala the Rugby World Cup in 1995, and the Soccer World Cup 4 years ago. I even felt some of the gees in 2007 when the Springboks beat England in France. Once we have a reason to pull together, we do.
Politically, this is rarer, and the unity everyone felt since 1994 has spiraled to the lowest ebb I can remember (I was hardly a teenager in 1994), 20 years after we kicked off our new freedom. Brothers and sisters, we have stalled, and we have stalled badly.
As the ANC destroys all the post-1994 gains, I can feel the uprising beginning. This feels me with optimism. When South Africans come together for a common cause, the results make international headlines. This time, again, when everyone is expecting civil war and bloodshed, we shall again show the world how strong we are. That we have learnt from the great man himself, Mandela, about freedom and the expressions thereof.
It is time.
It is time for all of us, of all colours and creeds, of all backgrounds to finally rise up against this ANC which is destroying us. I hope we have finally got past colour - for this is far more important than that. This is about an ANC which is failing. It is failing the taxpayers, it is callously benefiting the mega-rich (corruption included), but most of all, it is failing the poor. Basic services are now a pipe-dream. The ANC is falling prey to militant domination, which something no-one will benefit from.
Mr friends, and fellow countrymen, let us rise up once more and defeat this disgusting monster the ANC has become. We need a real president, some like Thuli, but we will have to wait and see whether she stays the politics course after her PP term is complete.
Personally, I will vote for the DA because I believe that clean governance is the most important thing for our country going forward. I am not saying you should, but I am saying you must now exercise your freedoms the way so many died to enable you to do.
The ANC is dying, let's make it as painless as possible! Starting in 2016. See you there.
