Winnie has served her sentence and cannot be regarded as a person who cannot participate in affairs of society. The Prisons are now referred to as correctional centres cultivating new persons for re-integration into the mainstream of society. Our law even recognises that is why section 47 allows persons to have a five years cool off period. There is not any total moralistic banishment .

On the question of legality of nomination of Winnie, the IEC or CC will swiftly resolve this little impasse in due course. We do not have to go to war on this!

The difficulty of this debate is that we are not willing to agree that we are poles apart as regards our understanding and content of the concept of morality. A concept devoid of monolithic content !

You seem to have the strong and absolute morality solution. Converse, I have my own dynamic of morality. I hold too deeply that all south africans have a right to vote regardless of their views about politics and their country. Wherever they within the resource capacity of our developing State.

Even the murders of Chris Hani, our liberator(to those who subscribe to the philosophy and programme of the ANC) will certainly vote.

The judgment of the Constitutional Court was justified! Expatriates cannot be treated any less South African. We have all colours out there; different political shades abound.

We should be torchbearers of nation building and not peddlers of racial prejudices which will perpetuate division and mistrust in our nascent democracy.

I am willing to serve under an expatriate President or government !

My imagination does suppurate, but when it comes to the criminal conduct of the ANC, there is no imagination needed – in fact, the ANC is so accepting of crime, that they have nominated sterling examples of lawful citizens such as Winnie Madikizela-Mandale to sit in Parliment, in spite of the fact that she is currently serving a suspended sentence.

As a matter of interest, my brother was shot and murdered in 1983 at 18 years old as he skipped the country – he was running because he refused to fight in the bush wars against black South Africans. It may not count in your books, but my father would tell you otherwise. Chris Hani, again, was not killed for me – please refrain from trying to project things on to people like that, it is hurtful and unnecessary.

The issue here is that we are allowed to vote, and that we are considered South Africans – true-blooded patriots. This is justice.

Let us go vote! I can’t wait !

Any chance of getting a copy put on this website as a documents of interest? (On numerous occasions in the past, I’ve had problems with the IEC website- broken links, pages not loading, etc.)

Happy voting to all!

Harping on the matter will be your mainstay. We truly will not entertain future stale news when the curtains close on this epic political trial!