ANC-DA coalition collapses in small town

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The only ANC-DA coalition government in South Africa, in a little-known municipality in the Western Cape, has fallen apart after the ANC expelled its mayor and deputy mayor in the area.

Kannaland’s ANC mayor, Magdalena Barry, and her deputy, Phillipus Antonie, have approached the courts to overturn their expulsion with immediate effect.

Both were recalled by the ANC’s Western Cape provincial secretary, Faiez Jacobs, on Wednesday.

The hearing on the termination of the two ANC councillors’ membership will be held this week.
An added twist to the saga is that neither the ANC’s national nor its provincial leadership was officially informed when the two entered into this highly unusual cooperation agreement after the August 2016 local government elections.

It is understood the deal was brokered to keep out the previous governing party, the Independent Civic Organisation of SA (Icosa), following a fallout between that party and its former alliance partner, the ANC.

The Kannaland DA-ANC partnership came to light as the Economic Freedom Fighters was criticised for lending its councillor numbers to political parties to clinch several municipalities across South Africa.

Such deal-making places power politics in local government in the spotlight.
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Good or bad?

 

[SweetFennyAdams]

I don;t think the DA can not sustain fragile coalitions unless they can gain significant vote number increases in the next elections.
The ANC were complacent and disorganised before the last municipal elections.
They thought they’d win comfortably, as they had before.
The ANC will conduct a hard push for their electorate to vote for them the next election.
Populist rhetoric is going to go into over-drive to claw back EFF defectors and to racialise politics.