If you guys (DA) can really prove to the South African public that the DA will govern South Africa properly than the ANC, and that everyone will be treated with respect and treated equally then you will begin to win some black votes in the next few decades. Let's face it, whites have had just over 350 years to treat everyone equally but dinosaur mentality prevailed until De Klerk "sold out" the old white regime and Mandela took power peacefully.
I know of a few farm (black) workers who are abused and treated badly by their (white) bosses, what will make then vote for the DA, which in many people's eyes is a white run and supported party? It is true that people actually do think that the DA will run the country better than the ANC but their are scared of bringing white people back to power. It's not because they think you guys will bring back apartheid (that's what they say I know), but it's because they are afraid that oppression in the workplace will be worse (more specifically farms), they are afraid that white people will assert their power and authority and probably abuse blacks.. They are afraid that freedom of movement for blacks will be restricted, a few white people might say blacks are not allowed to live in a certain complex because (generally speaking) blacks make a lot of noise. A black student might be bitten up by whites and then get away with it because the police and the courts wil be run by whites, and so that will send a message to other whites that blacks can be treated in whatever way. These are some of my fears as well as other black people's fears of a South Africa run by whites, and that's why we are a bit sceptical about putting my cross on the DA spot. Laws under a DA run SA might be fair for all South Africans but what about what happens on the ground?
Anyway!!!
I'm seeing more and more people on a daily bases becoming fed up and disillusions win the ANC (myself included). Many young black people today don't see the ANC as a party that liberated blacks but as a party that is doing its job/not doing its job. So therefore in the next decade or so more and more voters will base their decisions for voting for the ANC on their performance instead of their role in abolishing Apartheid.
I know of a few farm (black) workers who are abused and treated badly by their (white) bosses, what will make then vote for the DA, which in many people's eyes is a white run and supported party? It is true that people actually do think that the DA will run the country better than the ANC but their are scared of bringing white people back to power. It's not because they think you guys will bring back apartheid (that's what they say I know), but it's because they are afraid that oppression in the workplace will be worse (more specifically farms), they are afraid that white people will assert their power and authority and probably abuse blacks.. They are afraid that freedom of movement for blacks will be restricted, a few white people might say blacks are not allowed to live in a certain complex because (generally speaking) blacks make a lot of noise. A black student might be bitten up by whites and then get away with it because the police and the courts wil be run by whites, and so that will send a message to other whites that blacks can be treated in whatever way. These are some of my fears as well as other black people's fears of a South Africa run by whites, and that's why we are a bit sceptical about putting my cross on the DA spot. Laws under a DA run SA might be fair for all South Africans but what about what happens on the ground?
Anyway!!!
I'm seeing more and more people on a daily bases becoming fed up and disillusions win the ANC (myself included). Many young black people today don't see the ANC as a party that liberated blacks but as a party that is doing its job/not doing its job. So therefore in the next decade or so more and more voters will base their decisions for voting for the ANC on their performance instead of their role in abolishing Apartheid.
