Municipal elections are on us once again, run by the IEC and we all get our chance to join a line, and vote. There are always some interesting parties, some which are announced to much fanfare and hardly survive two years, such as appears to be the case with COPE, but I found a very amusing one this year, namely the Cape Party. The Cape Party stands for declaring the Cape Province as an independent country, to be called Cape Republic and one has to wonder as to whether or not these are the thoughts of people with wonderful, sincere intentions, or just a bunch of people who are enjoying the publicity and media coverage that it will surely get for making such statements!
The important thing of course is that we’ve had 17 wonderful years in this country, 17 years after the world media descended on us, ready to cover what they thought would be a bloodbath and getting to report instead on a normal voting procedure with long queues, that eventually stretched over three days.