A state that just reacts

There is nothing more demoralising and disheartening with the ruling party's continuous method of being a government of reaction, as opposed to being a government of change and reaction.

- KEKELETSO NAKELI

Perhaps this change that we are promised during elections is nothing more than an electioneering slogan - translating to nothingness.

Even scarier, the change in the political calm is inevitable and we need stability to preserve law and order for business to continue.

When the townships burn, all that the government can do, and has been doing, is just to react.

From president to president, these are the same government leaders who feel no shame in walking to informal settlements, littered with tin roofs of shack dwellings, where an air of poverty permeates the air.