Is our own Titanic sinking?

On this day in 1912 the unsinkable Titanic sank rather quickly to the bottom of the Atlantic ocean. There were very few who survived to continue on with their lives, such an ordeal must have left heavy imprints of frightening memories of bright beginnings that had somehow, against all odds, gone horribly wrong.
Are we, the so often forever hopefuls about our own bright future here in South Africa sailing on our own Titanic of political greediness and upheaval? We have only to look to the north to realise that the African continent is not a very safe fleet to be sailing with, many a ship has floundered on the rash and unkept promises of some democratically elected tyrant who immediately seems to become another despotic ruler to lead their followers on an (often bloody) path of destruction and chaos while they put on their sad and woeful faces to the rest of the world and with both hands together and outstretched beg for aid for their sick and starving populations mainly because they have themselves depleted the countries coffers by shunting out the lands wealth into their private Swiss Bank accounts.
Why do the African people keep voting for leaders who have already proven themselves to be dishonest and uncaring?
Here in South Africa, if we are not very careful, next week on Wednesday 22 we might be boarding our own sinking ship and soon many of us who had started the journey with happy smiling faces will be looking back at distant horizons of dreams of peace in our time and may well be wishing that we had placed our cross somewhere else on the election paper.
We need to think very carefully about who and what we are voting for, else it might be that our own written crosses are perhaps the very hardest we will ever have to bare.