Watching a memorial event in Sharpeville, the township that played a pivotal role in the country’s liberation struggle, Olwethu Ndema knew thousands had fought for freedom and the right to vote for South Africa’s Black majority. But she has no intention of exercising that right in the May 29 general election.
“Voting is simply a pyramid scheme that makes the elected richer and richer,” said the 28-year-old intern at a government development agency, who plans to abstain.
Thirty years after Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress swept to power on a promise to lift up millions of impoverished Black citizens, Ndema is part of a younger generation so disenchanted with democracy that only 40 per cent have registered to vote.
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