DA Manifesto Launch

Pitbull said:
Care to back up this claim?
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As I said , I think. Seen comments on Facebook on a regular basis that people won't vote for DA anymore.
IMO its now a black party, definately not carrying my lily white ass' interests at heart. Lately they've become just another lot who tries to get cheap black votes.
 
freddster said:
As I said , I think. Seen comments on Facebook on a regular basis that people won't vote for DA anymore.
IMO its now a black party, definately not carrying my lily white ass' interests at heart. Lately they've become just another lot who tries to get cheap black votes.
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How have they changed from what they were representing your white ass? As far as we can see their policy stance remains the same.
 
freddster said:
As I said , I think. Seen comments on Facebook on a regular basis that people won't vote for DA anymore.
IMO its now a black party, definately not carrying my lily white ass' interests at heart. Lately they've become just another lot who tries to get cheap black votes.
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I'm sure some would probably leave to vote for the FF+ and the likes sure. But I'm willing to bet that at least 95%+ of their old supporter base remains unchanged and they are gaining more votes from the black majority. So it's still a good trade off. I'm actually of the opinion that those who left made the DA an even better fit for myself and others.
 
freddster said:
As I said , I think. Seen comments on Facebook on a regular basis that people won't vote for DA anymore.
IMO its now a black party, definately not carrying my lily white ass' interests at heart. Lately they've become just another lot who tries to get cheap black votes.
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black votes can put you in government, I don't consider that cheap, it's priceless
 
Interesting piece.

DA launches a manifesto that promises to turn the country into Cape Town

Last week, the African National Congress dropped a limp municipal election manifesto in a not-so-full stadium. On Saturday, the DA checked in with their own version. If the ANC had nothing to sell but a fading brand, the DA were selling what they consider to be their showpiece: the glittering city at the bottom of Africa where the whole sorry story began its abject sorry-ness.

There were many small beginnings, but the Democratic Alliance municipal election manifesto launch properly kicked off when 2015 Idols winner Karabo Mogane began shirtlessly humping a drum. With pecs a-rippling, Mogane expertly mimicked the art of copulation – a precise enactment of what the DA hopes to do to the ANC in many of South Africa’s rusting metros, albeit wearing blue T-shirts and without the use of percussive ornamentation.

And so, the 2016 municipal election circus trundles its way towards August 3, which has been designated as election day (maybe). On Saturday, the DA’s tents were pitched in the gritty mining community of Rosettenville, southern Johannesburg. It was a baking autumn day, and into the Rand Stadium, capacity 30,000, flowed the DA’s lite-beer commercial mélange of supporters. The DA likes to claim they are the country’s most diverse party, by which they mean that they have white and black members. Nonetheless, in a country obsessed with race, and for a party that represents the last freehold of white political power, this was a largely black crowd. If these new democrats were once comrades, and had recently decamped from the ANC, they were likely to have been a little baffled: there is a ritualised aspect to all of these events, but the DA are so obsessed with scheduling and punctuality that they transform the age-old rituals into clenched-jaw rigour. This thing started at 10:00, and was on course to finish as near as dammit to on-time as possible.
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Poignant bit:

The DA may want to consider why their messaging doesn’t resonate with the “younger demographic” – the same kids either so enraged by the system that they’ve chosen to opt out of mainstream politics entirely, or the other kids who are setting their universities on fire. Perhaps several clues exist in the communities they insist prove their worth. Cape Town is – let’s be straight here – a very weird place. It demonstrates what happens when tick-tock efficiency exists within an unfair superstructure, when comprehensive and creative redress is eschewed in order to run the cleanest, most efficient unequal society on the planet. The DA hangs on to the concept of Rainbowism, but Cape Town, like everywhere else in the country, is a place of separateness.

What, then, are the DA offering – other than better separateness?
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freddster said:
DA=cANCer lite. Same policies. .
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One could only reach that opinion if they have read neither DA or ANC policies. They are broadly different from what I read. Could you be specific about which DA policy is the same as an anc policy?

To assist you, here is the link to DA policies. Now which one (Im asking just for one policy) is the same as the ANCs?

https://www.da.org.za/why-the-da/policies/

You must have a whole bunch ready to use as an example to make the statement you did.
 
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