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SIZOFUNDA NGENKANI CAMPAGIN IN A YEAR OF ELECTIONS By MAB Shongwe and Yiva Makrwede

  SIZOFUNDA NGENKANI CAMPAGIN IN A YEAR OF ELECTIONS By MAB Shongwe and Yiva Makrwede In the year 2024, South Africa will be marking a milestone in its constitutional and electoral democracy, as it will be celebrating thirty years of its democratic dispensation and a seventh national elections, respectively. These milestones, historic as they are, they are preceded by an economy that is growing in the negative, an economy that is unable to create jobs, particularly for its most productive and educated strata, the youth, it is similarly preceded by collapsing state-owned entities, particularly the power utility Eskom, which has exacerbated the economic crisis, and further deepened poverty, unemployment, and inequality, as emerging and established businesses had to either close down or reduce their workforce due to reduced productivity caused by the perpetual blackouts. These milestones are preceded by deepening social quagmires like violent crimes, particularly violence agai...