The dangerous cocktail of statistics making SA ripe for political instability

Using the 2019 national elections, Stellenbosch University's senior lecturer in mathematics, Bruce Bartlett, crunched the numbers and concluded that South Africa's total voter turnout stands at 49 percent. A combination of this statistic with two other sets of statistics makes the country ripe for political instability and mostly likely complete chaos. When the statistics are considered alongside anecdotal evidence, a picture emerges of eligible voters who are too discouraged to vote; just like job seekers, who are too discouraged to keep looking, writes columnist Mpumelelo Mkhabela.