Why threatening our fledgling democracy?

With the advent of a new South Africa in 1994, the country came under sportlight
as a beacon of hope for Africa. Apartheid was officially dead. The enhancement
of democracy was what the newly-elected Government was tasked to advance.
A decade after the birth of the Rainbow nation, we now witness a retroggressive
attempt to return back to the dark days of Apartheid. Shortly after the demise
of the Scorpions (South Africa's independent investigating and prosecuting authourity),
we heard some wayward and increasingly overzealous politicians shouting
that they were prepared to "kill for Zuma". Surprisingly, as it seems, they were surely
not prepared to die for anyone. The very same people who have become experts when it
comes to inciting public violence, are bankrupt of any good idea that leads to the promotion
of essential democratic values. They seem to be possessed with so strong an anti-democratic
spirit. The Media and the Judiciary has of late been at the receiving end of numerous threats
from these individual politicians who seem to be keen and determined to sacrifice the rule of law on the alter of self-aggrandizement. Let there be a renewal, by our leaders, of the same spirit
we had in 1994. Let us return to the reconciliatory tone that punctuated the Mandela era.