Electioneering is Finished and Klaar for 2009
From Monday we will no longer be subjected to politicians begging for our votes. It’s now up to us to go vote on 22 April.
Following the US elections in 2008, our campaigning season got off to a slow start, however it soon picked up pace.
First we had the Democratic Alliance launch their new logo, copying Barack Obama’s winning election strategy, but without a change candidate – except if you reckon putting botox in an old politician’s face is change.
Then we had the whole COPE formation in December. They might have not have provided real change, but we did get a daily dose of musical chairs defections back and forth between COPE and the ANC.
Patricia De Lille’s one man band criss-crossed the 9 provinces, promising a coalition with opposition parties – presumably the DA too. Ms De Lille followed up her coalition talk by suggesting Helen Zille and the DA still had a baasskap attitude. I wonder what that would make the ID.
The ANC meanwhile continued on it’s merry way, frustrating opposition supporters who could not for the life of them understand the party’s popularity. Jacob Zuma’s esteem seemed to grow in direct proportion to the amount of criticism and court charges he faced.
An honourable mention must go to the fiesty new Cape Party that wants the Cape to get independence from the rest of the country.
Another honourable mention must go to Julius Malema who provided more quotable quotes than anyone – coining the phrases “Madam” for Helen Zille and “garden boys: for the previously invisible DA youth league.
