What SA needs is a government that is scared of the electorate. That IMHO is true democracy, where the government bends over backwards to please the electorate.

Maybe we are heading in that direction with the disenfranchised almost constantly protesting. Unfortunately the disenfranchised are probably more interested in a socialist state than democracy where they think they can get everything for nothing.

What is needed is for the tax payers, as in PAYE and business tax payers, to start constantly protesting as Jollifier suggested some time ago. Maybe some passive aggressive protesting would be a good way to go about it. Any ideas?

The answer to that question will shift the balance of political power in this country BigT. It's a question that is on every taxpayer's mind. As for the working class demanding more from government, well, they are already demanding more from government than government can deliver. So that's not the problem here. The problem is that the government the working class elected has other plans and agenda's (oh and that it is being funded by people who didn't elect it)

I've said it many times: In which other countries does this equation exist?

That's a pretty accurate description, but then if you look at the state of education in this country, it's not surprising, what other hope do they have? Government is failing them and has a convinient scape goat. The ANC, SACP are continually pushing 'What government/ANC/SACP will do for you', capatalism is all about what 'you can do for yourself', until South Africans learn that there ae no limits to what they can achieve, and have the knowledge to assist them, they'll always choose the socialist / communist route, that is until the government has enough power that what the electorate wants doesn't matter e.g. Zim, N Korea etc...

Arguably, this happened in South Africa in 1994. It's just taken 16 years for the government to exercise that power. (The power to not give a damn, that is)