Who's got the power?

Will government finally listen to the voice of the people?

- ISAAC MASHABA

N ow that our poorly organised (in some areas) and much-criticised general elections are something of the past, we are supposed to look to the future for a brighter and better governed South Africa, where the interests of the citizens will be placed before the financial interests of some of our elected, but corrupt, leaders.

But a reoccurring problem seems to be that our leaders have no interest in looking to the nation's future. Instead, they prefer to be stuck in the past and thereby deny us a future. And while they distract us with the past, they plunder the economy.

Regardless of our country ending up with a coalition government or a government of national unity, three questions immediately come to mind: will the new government strive to achieve unity? Will it look to the future? Where will the true power of this new government lie?

Will a government of national unity indeed bring us unity? Disunity was, after all, something the ruling party worked hard at achieving as it believed in an approach of divide and conquer. It was by developing divisive policies that the greatest pushback came from the voters.