It is hard to separate the booing of President Jacob Zuma at the memorial service of Nelson Mandela, from what is going on with the e-tags.  They definitely appear to be linked to a general dissatisfaction with the way things are in South Africa at the moment.  That however can be said in many countries around the world at many times, and there is only one thing that counts and that is how people vote.  I would be surprised if we see election results next year that are any different to the results of previous years.  Perhaps we will see 2% or 3% of votes taken away from the ANC and going to smaller parties, but I don’t believe that the vast majority of our people are going to, because they are upset with e-tags, suddenly now start voting for the Democratic Alliance or some new party.  If they don’t, then there is not much one can argue about – if you elect the same people year after year, and they make decisions that you don’t like, then you will simply have to abide by them.  One gets a chance every five years to choose new leaders and you cannot on the one hand vote for the same people and on the other hand continually boycott their proposals.  The problem for the other political parties is that it is only the ANC who has struggle credentials and I think most voters will ultimately vote on that basis and not on the basis of a R200 million house or e-tags or all the various other issues that have so infuriated people recently.  If the ANC is returned to power with its usual majority, they will also do so then with a sense that regardless of what decisions they take, they will remain in power and so, just like Zimbabwe before us, it is an interesting phase that we are going through and I think it is probably still too early for people to forget that it was indeed the ANC who liberated South Africa, but one thing is for sure, if they continue their unpopular policies, then they will have more embarrassing results than just the booing that we saw of Jacob Zuma in years to come.