Inhumane Rights Day in Mzansi

South Africa commemorates Human Rights Day today, March 21. The day in 1960 when police opened fired on protesters in Sharpeville killing 69 people. The event was a major turning point in black South Africa's struggle for equality. Some 64 years later we sit, here in a sweltering and calm Cape Town, and ponder on the meaning of the day. For me, and I imagine for many normal South Africans, the memory of the 'dark old days' has faded and been replaced with more pressing issues. 

We have a government, a black-dominated government, which continues to fail us all. The list of its scandals has become a popular meme on South Africa's social media.

How is it that this ANC government has managed to ... excuse the French ... screw over so many people. And even after a massive State Capture Commission which fingered so many cadres in dodgy deals, do we still have a near zero conviction rate? Indeed, despite the ANC's own 'step aside' rule, the ANC's May 29 election list includes scores of persons implicated in graft. 

South Africans will face a test on May 29. Will they vote to keep the corrupted in play or will they choose a new path. Either a centrist liberal DA or perhaps a radical leftist MK or EFF. Time will tell and hopefully, registered voters will make the right choice.