"Beyond this, though, what the massive turnout on Saturday suggests is a degree of hopelessness among South Africans. With the apparent failure of both the democratic process and state institutions to hold the executive to account, little wonder that many are now choosing to entrust their memorandum of demands to God rather than Parliament."

This is a cutting statement and a great insight. Except I do think it implies the other side of the coin that's a problem: that politics is supposed to save us. It can't. It never has. It will continue to disappoint. 

Politics has its place but it's not everything. I wonder if in a post-liberation context like ours if we haven't placed too much stock in it; too much stock in the political process. Which is why people make our nation-building to be either up to God alone or the government alone, but by-and-large don't want to make themselves uncomfortable to get it done. Meanwhile, Jesus says YOU (and *I*) must love our neighbour. He does already.