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24-4-95
Please take into consideration the following points when
drawing up the new constitution for South Africa.
- All
members in parliament (this includes all houses/assemblies) must be elected by
the people in a fair election. Under no circumstances
should people be
nominated eg. the undemocratic nomination of parliamentarians ± 30 of them
in Zimbabwe by their President.
This is important, referring to our traditional
leaders. If traditional leaders wish to be involved in the running of our
country
on national or local levels they must be elected by the, or their
supporters. any behind the scenes deals that traditional leaders
get nominated
into councils or whatever and we the taxpayers have to pay their salaries is a
farce of democracy if the people who
believe or look to their traditional
leaders as leaders of themselves, they must then show their support - and the
way to do this
- they must elect their leaders like the rest of South Africans
do in fair elections.
I do not see why my tax money must be paid
to traditional leaders - they do not represent me or my views/beliefs their
interest are
only with their people and areas - this does not fit into the one
South Africa.
Traditional leaders who want representation must be elected
by the people democratically and serve their supporters like all other
elected
people fair and square. Any tax payers money spent on traditional leader not
elected is unconstitutional - undemocratic
and will lead to court battles which
will be costly - and of course a waste of taxpayers hard earned
money.
2. We as the people must have the ability to elect people who we
believe will serve us and the countries best interest in parliament
under the
present system we can only elect party elected members - this is not democratic.
We the people do not have the power to
elect people in our parties. We must be
able to choice the person and if need be the party. If election time comes I
want to vote
for my party but I want to see who I'm electing and who I can then
go to with any problems ie. members of parties must be allowed
wards. If I do
not like the person who is of my party in my constituency but I like another
person from another party I would like
to vote for him - and then my party on
the national level. We as the people must have the choice of the person - no
choice of the
person we can go to with problems is a JOKE! We cannot trust our
political parties that they will put the best people into positions
- remember
politics is about scratch my back and I'll scratch yours - a game of favours and
lies - all politicians are of the same
breed. We the people are sick of party
political old boy's club nominations. We demand the individual choice - the
party comes
second ‑because we know if the puppets they put in don’t
tow the line their backs
don’t get scratched. I we put the person into
power and he does not perform - he's out in the next election. Give us our
democratic
right to choice who goes into parliament and not who the party
decided to put into parliament.
3. We have a bunch of bandits and
unconvicted and convicted criminals in parliament - what a banana republic this
is. Any person
found guilty or serious offences should not be allowed to serve
in parliament - strict laws should apply - a country run by dishonest
people
will lead to a country of lies, deception and corruption. Wake up - we the joke
of the planet.
I hope my views will be heard with an open mind - I trust
your judgement.
Kind regards - fair minded South African.
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