"DA Closing in on ANC"

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Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi has called for a shift in attitudes and an ethical turnaround in the alliance, warning that a lack of quality leadership and sidelining the poor had opened the door for the DA to mount a serious challenge for power by 2019.

Vavi blamed leadership failures on a “dearth of political conscious(ness)” among “too many” union and political leaders who had become distanced from the people.

“Too many of our leaders stay in Sandton, in former whites-only suburb, and a lot of them have become visitors in the theatre of class struggle,” he told the almost 1 000 delegates at the National Union of Metalworkers’ congress in Durban/ eThekweni on Thursday.
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http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/da-closing-in-on-anc-warns-vavi-1.1314532#.T9GgkbDztoM

Comment: Vavi for president I say :)
 
Excuse me??/ Vavi should look in the mirror, I have never heard such utter crap coming from someone who is doing the exact same thing. :rolleyes:
People in glass house......
It may be true what he is saying but he is exactly the same.
 
I remember how everyone laughed at me when I said the DA would most likely be sharing equal power with the ANC in 2020. Seems everyone is seeing the writing on the wall.
 
Vavi is an idiot. (He's not a myBB member is he? Aki repeat?)

Time for the likes of Cosatu to go away. The unions do far more harm than good in this country (and pretty much every country in the world).
 
marine1 said:
I would think there would be massive demonstrations against that ;)
Ahhh me and my predictions of chaos. :D
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TBH, I'm not sure about that! I think it largely depends how it happens! If the DA wins a couple of the smaller municipalities in the other provinces and they do good there, hopefully word spreads and they gain more and more municipalities do more good and people will see that they can hopefully do some good!
 
Some facts.

2009 National election vote result.

ANC = 11,650,748
DA = 2,945,829

1,311,027 went to COPE... with it crumbling, those who voted for them might soon vote for the ANC...

804,260 voted for IFP.... it's also dying, I don't see its supporters voting for anyone else, but the ANC or NFP.

It's a numbes' game.

It's not impossible. It's just going to be a mountain to climb.

I don't like the ANC having so much power. It weakens democracy.
 
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Albereth said:
Why? I don't get this prediction of massive demonstrations. Surely if the DA enjoys equal power it follows that they enjoy equal support.
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Yea but the DA supporters tend not to set schit on fire when they get upset. They get beaten up in the streets and their marches broken up instead.
 
zululami said:
True. I generally don't have qualms about paying tax... I just wish it could be put to good use!!! Like building more Gautrains. With a national budget of R1-trillion... the sky is the limit!!!
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I don't mind paying tax, when my money is going towards what it is intended.

I mean I pay tax and than still have to pay emergency services if they come out to assist me...
 
zululami said:
True. I generally don't have qualms about paying tax... I just wish it could be put to good use!!! Like building more Gautrains. With a national budget of R1-trillion... the sky is the limit!!!
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Amen.

People dont mind paying tax if they get good value for money. Tax`s buy us civilization.
 
The ANC and its alliance partners were unable to “take back” the Western Cape, which it had lost through divisions and factional battles. It had held off the DA’s attempt to win Port Elizabeth (Nelson Mandela Bay metro) by the narrowest of margins. “Already the DA has five percent of people in the townships – something unheard of in the past.
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Please can they take PE. Next election, I can feel it. The DA is slowly taking the coast and then will move inland. All the plaas boers need to vote DA as well their FF plus has no chance what so ever.
 
Here's the thing - the great big dirty thing. I'm a DA member, I am an active member of my branch and I sit on my local Ward Committee. So I do have some perspective - and the DA isn't ready to rule SA. I wouldn't want them to win the next general election - it'd probably be on of the worst possible outcomes.

Quite honestly, this slow increase is the best thing for the DA since it shows where and how they govern well and it also means they get to learn how to govern something on a larger scale bit by bit. So it's good that it's slow.

I observed the counting at the last election (never again! So boring!) and the numbers were pretty telling. The DA is making inroads, the ANC is strong and the other parties are pretty much non-existent. Taking PE would be a good experiment - with any luck they'll take it and actually run it well but I suspect there's a large difference between CT in the Western Cape and PE in the Eastern Cape.
 
AntiThesis said:
Here's the thing - the great big dirty thing. I'm a DA member, I am an active member of my branch and I sit on my local Ward Committee. So I do have some perspective - and the DA isn't ready to rule SA. I wouldn't want them to win the next general election - it'd probably be on of the worst possible outcomes.

Quite honestly, this slow increase is the best thing for the DA since it shows where and how they govern well and it also means they get to learn how to govern something on a larger scale bit by bit. So it's good that it's slow.

I observed the counting at the last election (never again! So boring!) and the numbers were pretty telling. The DA is making inroads, the ANC is strong and the other parties are pretty much non-existent. Taking PE would be a good experiment - with any luck they'll take it and actually run it well but I suspect there's a large difference between CT in the Western Cape and PE in the Eastern Cape.
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Wouldn't PE be easy to run? Its tiny.
 
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