Putting people first must be a priority for blinkered politicians

WE’VE arrived at a momentous time when celebrating 30 years of democracy is all but forgotten. So overpowering, yet immensely promising, has the last fortnight been that almost all of us – those who voted abroad, those who voted in the country from May 27 to 29, those who did not vote who are largely African, and those who have felt profoundly excluded and who decided not to bother to register to vote, again largely African – are consumed by what will our party political leaders and their