As we look to the next general election in South Africa every citizen of this country has to do some deep and honest soul-searching about where we have been, where are, and where we are going. In the first instance we must accept that the hard-won right to vote and thereby influence the future of our country is profoundly important. It is a right which we should all exercise as responsible citizens irrespective of who support.
But in making your choice as to which party to support I would like to outline briefly why you should give your most serious consideration to voting for the United Christian Democratic Party. In predicting the future one necessarily has to look at the present and the past. Under the current African National Congress dispensation we have witnessed a general decline in standards which, in any normal society, would have seen the current crop of leaders drummed out of office in disgrace. Almost without exception they have blundered and staggered from one self-inflicted crisis to the next, losing precious credibility abroad, and at accost which this country can ill afford, particularly the growing army of unemployed.