EVALUATING the SOUTH AFRICAN ELECTIONS 2019

A record number of 48 political parties registered candidates for the 2019 Parliamentary Elections. This was 19 more parties than contested the 2014 National Elections. Some of these parties opted to contest only in the provincial elections.

Most South Africans Did Not Vote

Although South Africa has a population of over 59 million, only 26,736,803 were registered voters as of 19 April 2018. Roughly 9.3 million registered voters did not turn up to vote in this election. There is another 9 million South Africans who are of voting age, who did not register to vote. That is over 18 million people who chose not to participate in the electoral process.

Most Eligible Citizens Fail to Register or Vote

In the 1994 elections, 19,533,000 votes were cast. More than at any elections since. Even though South Africa’s population has more than doubled since 1994, the number of votes cast has consistently been lower.

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ELECTIONS in SOUTH AFRICA

Volatile

Elections in Africa are always volatile and frequently violent. Intimidation is rife. Disinformation is the order of the day in most of the state-controlled media.

Violent

Although there was an extraordinary amount of arson attacks, riots, wild fires and destruction of property in the run up to the elections, on the day there were few violent incidents. At least compared to the weeks before. Numerous people claimed that they were prevented from voting by political mobs, but most braved the rain and stood in the long-winding ques.

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Free Enterprise and Honest Money

The 10 Commandments (not "the 10 Suggestions" note) still stand:

"Thou shall not steal", Exodus 20:15 and "Thou shall not covet thy neighbour's goods", Exodus 20:17.

Socialism is legalised theft. It is institutionalised envy. And it just doesn't work. Socialism produces nothing - except poverty and bureaucracy. Socialists are parasites who consume what others have earned by hard work and ingenuity. There is a world of difference between voluntary Christian generosity and sharing, and compulsory Socialist confiscation and coercion. Private ownership of property and of the means of production is Biblical.

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TRILLIONS OF REASONS WHY I WILL NOT BE VOTING ANC

There are literally trillions of reasons why I will not be voting for the African National Congress (ANC) in the upcoming elections on 8 May 2019:

1. Over 1,600,000 babies have been killed by abortion in South Africa – legally, often with taxpayer’s money - since the ANC legalized abortion-on-demand, 1 February 1997. “Deliver those who are drawn toward death. And hold back those stumbling to the slaughter.” Proverbs 24:11

2. Over 600,000 people have been murdered in South Africa since 1994 – under the ANC government – yet the ANC has steadfastly refused to consider re-instating the death penalty for murder. Nor have they been willing to put the matter to a referendum. “Bloodshed pollutes the land and atonement cannot be made for the land on which blood has been shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.” Numbers 35:33

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