ANC takes five wards in by-elections

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The ANC won five wards, including one uncontested ward, in this week's by-elections, according to results published on the Independent Electoral Commission of SA's (IEC) website on Thursday.

Municipal by-elections were held in nine wards across five provinces on Wednesday.

In the Eastern Cape, the African National Congress retained Ward 56 of the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality (Port Elizabeth) with its candidate Unathi Menemene winning the by-election.

In the same municipality, the Democratic Alliance's Robert Wylde won Ward one, which the party previously held.

Ward four of the Buffalo City municipality (East London) was retained by the DA, with Marion Mackley elected the new councillor.

In the Free State both parties retained their wards, with the ANC's Dineo Semela winning Ward 20 of the Maluti-a-Phofung municipality, Qwa-Qwa, and the DA's Johannes Roos winning Ward 13 in the Ngwathe municipality (Parys).

In Limpopo, Ward 10 of the Makhuduthamaga municipality (Ngwaritsi), which was previously held by a Congress of the People councillor, was won by Mamodupi Nkadimeng of the ANC.

The DA retained Ward 15 of the Steve Tshwete municipality in Middelburg, Mpumalanga, with its candidate Trevor Langeveld.

The ANC retained its seats in the North West, with Tironyane Makolomakwa being elected councillor of Ward 15 of the Mahikeng municipality and Ward 13 of the same municipality, which was uncontested, going to Kgomotso Comfort Seheri.


Source : Sapa /mjs/jk/jje
Date : 03 Apr 2014 09:53
 
Kinda misleading headline IMHO.
The ANC only took Ward 10 of Makhuduthamaga away from another party.
The DA retained 4 wards.
 
The worrying thing is that I am not seeing ANY change on voting patterns by ANC voters.
 
The worrying thing is that I am not seeing ANY change on voting patterns by ANC voters.

yea.. I'm not holding my breath for the masses to change their vote. They will follow ANC till Jesus comes.. or till Zuma runs the country into the ground.

edit: if the masses are dumb enough to believe e-tolls is not costing them anything.. then they are too dumb to change vote.
 
yea.. I'm not holding my breath for the masses to change their vote. They will follow ANC till Jesus comes.. or till Zuma runs the country into the ground.

edit: if the masses are dumb enough to believe e-tolls is not costing them anything.. then they are too dumb to change vote.

Mmmmm, worrying that.
 
The worrying thing is that I am not seeing ANY change on voting patterns by ANC voters.

We do not know what the turn out was. Party loyalist are always the ones that will make an effort to get to the polls, when it comes to by elections. Its the non loyalist that will make the difference, and generally do not bother with by elections.
 
We do not know what the turn out was. Party loyalist are always the ones that will make an effort to get to the polls, when it comes to by elections. Its the non loyalist that will make the difference, and generally do not bother with by elections.

Which is crazy, since your local ward councillor is actually closest to you out of all the politicians out there...
 
In theory yes, in practice...you do not know who they are, till their little poster goes up....

Then it's being done wrong.
I know who my councillor is, as well as the councillor for the ward next door (1 road away), and I have their cell numbers and email addresses. I get comms from them all the time.
 
Sheeple will sheep.

A big reason why people don't vote DA is due to their supporters (Not the members). Turns out insulting people isn't a great way to convince them to change their vote
 
A big reason why people don't vote DA is due to their supporters (Not the members). Turns out insulting people isn't a great way to convince them to change their vote

Sorry I call it as I see it. If you do stupid things I'll call you out on it. If you're offended by that then change your behaviour or harden up.

Edit - I don't mean you personally. I mean anyone who takes offence at me thinking they're idiots :-P
 
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A big reason why people don't vote DA is due to their supporters (Not the members). Turns out insulting people isn't a great way to convince them to change their vote

So in 20 years time they can turn around and blame the DA for making them vote for the party that destroyed the country?
 
A big reason why people don't vote DA is due to their supporters (Not the members). Turns out insulting people isn't a great way to convince them to change their vote

Sometimes you have to be brutally honest with people to wake them up.
A well placed and clever insult can make them suddenly sit up and take notice of something that they never considered before.
And if they don't, then no harm done... the insult was probably accurate then.
 
I have never, and I don't know a single person who (to my knowledge) ever voted in a by-election
 
Sorry I call it as I see it. If you do stupid things I'll call you out on it. If you're offended by that then change your behaviour or harden up.

Edit - I don't mean you personally. I mean anyone who takes offence at me thinking they're idiots :-P

Sure. You might be right.
But for those of us trying to campaign to get ANC voters to vote for the DA, you make our life harder
 
Sometimes you have to be brutally honest with people to wake them up.
A well placed and clever insult can make them suddenly sit up and take notice of something that they never considered before.
And if they don't, then no harm done... the insult was probably accurate then.

It just makes you feel better. For those of us trying to get people to switch their votes, your superior attitude (While it might be justified) makes our life infinitely more difficult
 
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