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sefeddt said:
Failed on the first 2 by calling people complaining about service delivery "white elitists" then corruption

amabhungane.org

Mashaba fiddles as roads agency burns

Mismanagement and dodgy contracts at Joburg city’s roads agency, and a lack of political will to tackle those problems, are only making matters worse.
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In his submission, Phillips writes that at as his relationship with the chairperson was souring and he was on the brink of resigning, a political adviser to the IFP’s Makhuba requested an urgent meeting.

According to the submission, at the meeting Phillips was requested not to resign and was reassured that the political leadership of the IFP would find ways of ironing out his relationship with the chair.

However, he was also told to “be aware” that political parties rely on donations from service providers who are given tenders, and that the decision to form the PMU was jointly taken by the IFP and EFF in order to side-step Kau’s department.

When he heard this, Phillips writes, “the hair stood up on the back of my neck,” adding that it reminded him of tender fraud at the Limpopo roads and transport department in 2011 in which the EFF’s leader was implicated.

In her 2012 report, On The Point Of Tenders, the Public Protector pointed to corruption involving the department’s awarding of a project management tender to On Point Engineering – a company linked to Julius Malema through his Ratanang Family Trust.

The report noted that the tender awarded to On Point was fraudulent, and that On Point was in a conflicted position acting as project management agent while entering into agreements with service providers it was supposed to oversee.
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The mayor’s spokesperson told amaBhungane that Mashaba was only respecting proper processes and could not intervene in the JRA without an investigation running its course.

Mashaba, however, showed no such hesitation in early 2017 when he replaced the board of City Power and removed the mayoral committee member overseeing that agency, Anthony Still, because of a disagreement over how to deal with managing director Sicelo Xulu.

Mashaba wanted Xulu gone, ostensibly because of corruption at City Power.

Still said at the time that “there have been allegations against Sicelo and he has been investigated many times, and I’ve looked at those investigations and they [the allegations] have not held water.”

A separate investigation conducted at the insistence of the mayor had not been concluded by the time Xulu was removed in mid-2017.
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Mike Hoxbig said:
The sentiment seems to be that the DA haven't capitalised on that loss...
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In an evolving and maturing democracy, the DA has grown in strength relative to the ANC while the ANC has lost its outright majority and is on a steady decline.

Critically, the DA has grown in strength in strategic metros, including the economic hub of South Africa, while the ANC is increasingly reliant on rural areas and outlying metros.

All this sounds like to me is cope. The ANC are in terrible shape so their supporters are looking to poke holes in a party in a much healthier position.
 
Sideshow Bob said:
Agree in part but only if totally unavoidable to exclude ANC. One needs to kick ANC out wherever possible.

Reason being is if ANC is part of coalition, they get part credit irrespective of anyone's efforts. But, if DA+ASA outperform (in COJ & Tshwane) without them, that makes it clear to people who is really good. Of course most people know it already but still.
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Hard disagree. No need to negotiate with rats and mice and their insane ultimatums.
 
Nom Chompsky said:
David Coltart was an MP for Zimbabwe's opposition. He also wrote a book about the decline of Zimbabwe despite his passion for the country. The ANC could have gone the ZANU-PF way back in 2024 but I'm glad that unlike the MK, they do generally accept the election results.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2119296608756015117
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I don't like Ramaphosa at all, but it's clear that the ANC is one of the few liberation movements that was taken over by the moderates while the hardliners broke away. Everywhere else almost every time the hardliners took over.
 
Nom Chompsky said:
David Coltart was an MP for Zimbabwe's opposition. He also wrote a book about the decline of Zimbabwe despite his passion for the country. The ANC could have gone the ZANU-PF way back in 2024 but I'm glad that unlike the MK, they do generally accept the election results.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2119296608756015117
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They are not called the Greatest Liberation Movement for no reason.
 
Garson007 said:
Hard disagree. No need to negotiate with rats and mice and their insane ultimatums.
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Look at something like Rustenburg. It's been a disaster since forever. An ANC+DA grand coalition means they can completely sideline the EFF elements and they can bring in fiscal discipline into the municipality. Not everything is about the big metros. There's a bigger picture here.
 
Garson007 said:
Look at something like Rustenburg. It's been a disaster since forever. An ANC+DA grand coalition means they can completely sideline the EFF elements and they can bring in fiscal discipline into the municipality. Not everything is about the big metros. There's a bigger picture here.
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and clean out the anc skeletons with their renewal they keep talking about.
 
thestaggy said:
In an evolving and maturing democracy, the DA has grown in strength relative to the ANC while the ANC has lost its outright majority and is on a steady decline.

Critically, the DA has grown in strength in strategic metros, including the economic hub of South Africa, while the ANC is increasingly reliant on rural areas and outlying metros.

All this sounds like to me is cope. The ANC are in terrible shape so their supporters are looking to poke holes in a party in a much healthier position.
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How would you respond if it wasn't said by an ANC supporter? If a non ANC supporter puts it to you that between 2014 and 2026 the ANC has lost over 30% support and the DA has only gained 3%?

If the non ANC supporter further puts it to you that if it's presumed that the ANC would continue on its trajectory of losing the remaining 30% in the next 5 election cycles and cease to exist then the DA would still be under 30% if it is also presumed that it would continue on the same growth trajectory?
 
thestaggy said:
I mean it is pretty clear;

The DA has grown 8 percentage points and the ANC has fallen by 30 percentage points.

One party has grown their share of the vote, the other has collapsed.
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An observation form the sidelines:

That's exactly why it would not make sense for ASA to form a coalition with the ANC. Imagine a voter saying voetsek ANC, you have betrayed me, and then your new party joins forces with them.

By default that leaves one choice. However I don't see the ex-ANC voter suddenly walking over to the DA, or a DA voter easily going to ASA.
 
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