OPINION | Postponing the upcoming 2024 General Elections is not a solution

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The proposal from former Statistician General Dr Pali Lehohla that the upcoming 2024 General Elections must be postponed to a later date is not a solution and must be rejected, Dennis Bloem writes.

Activists and Citizens Forum (ACF) think that this proposal came too late. In fact, we are calling for the elections to be brought forward.

The country is in a serious crises politically and economically, and we think the country must be placed under a State of Disaster.

Government Departments are not functioning. Police are totally ineffective. Citizens must rely on private security companies for their safety. Citizens must rely on private health services for their health care.

Water supply is a luxury. Citizens must buy drinking water. Millions are struggling to get water.

Citizens must dig deep into the pockets to install solar panels or buy generators to keep the electricity on. Almost all departments are run by consultants. It is a mess.

We are calling upon the ANC Government to put the interests of the people of South Africa first by showing them they care.

They must be honest and tell the people that they have failed and we must go to an early election to elect a new government. 

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Dr Lehohla reportedly told Daily Maverick that if the elections went ahead, South Africans could find themselves in even worse circumstances as wily politicians divvied up positions, perks and spoils and forgot about society at large.

“South Africans of all races and creeds should wake up from the tormenting nightmare characterised by an unending darkness.

“As far as I am concerned, the 2024 elections should be postponed so that South Africans can have frank conversations about the country they want to build and live in. 

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“We have to reset the horse so that it will be able to carry on its back the double load brought about and precipitated by accelerated failure in the latter half of our democracy.

“If we don’t, the elections will bring an outcome that will be nothing but calamity to all South Africans.”