You don't have to have a constituency to serve

Now it has come and gone and hearts are rent apart and bleeding. Men and women feel hard done. Many feel betrayed. Dreams are shattered. But even for the many who have survived Bulela Ditswe, it is just interim relief. We will be back here next year; with more body bags.

It is not an easy thing to lose a contest. I should know that. I have had my fair share of battles. Sometimes I have thought that success was inevitable. Then “BANG….!”, it all came falling down like a house of cards. I have looked at unsmiling court judges, choking in emotion, beneath faces soaked in anger.