Race to SA elections reaches fever pitch

On radio, in newspapers and all over everything is about the upcoming elections. There is so much excitement in the air and even the non-politicised cannot escape it. The Western Cape and particularly Cape Town is the hub of the Democratic Alliance (DA) but the African National Congress (ANC) is hot on the DA’s heels and hoping to dislodge it from the city and the province.

I am nestled in the high income suburban of Pinelands and sampling the posters on the street lights is quite an interesting exercise. Most of them belong to the DA, the African Christian Democratic Party and amazingly the Independent Freedom Party of Chief Mangosutu Buthelezi, with the ruling ANC at a distant fourth place.