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Elections a watershed - Helen Zille
2011-03-18 17:46

Cape Town - The upcoming local government elections could prove a "watershed moment" in South African politics, Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille said on Friday.

In her weekly newsletter, issued two months to the day before the country's fourth democratic local government elections, she said it would be the first time voters would have an opportunity to properly compare political parties' track records.

"[The May 18] elections are the first opportunity that South Africans have had since 1994 to make a full and proper comparison of the track records of different parties in government.

"In this election, voters will be in a position to contrast, for example, five years of DA government in Cape Town with five years of ANC government in Johannesburg."

The success of DA municipalities in the Western Cape was well-documented.

Service delivery

"Last year, the Universal Household Access to Basic Services, or UHABS Index, ranked Western Cape municipalities (the majority of which are DA-run) number one in the country for service delivery.

"An independent survey conducted by the South African Institute for Race Relations found that more poor people had access to free basic services in the Western Cape than anywhere else."

The only DA-run municipality in Gauteng was Midvaal.

"It is consistently top of the league for service delivery in its province. This year, Midvaal received its 8th unqualified audit in ten years. Last year, it was ranked number one in the province in the annual ‘quality of life’ survey."

Zille said that perhaps the best contrast between ANC and DA government was the case of the Kouga municipality in the Eastern Cape.

"In 2000, when the DA took office, the municipality was bankrupt and struggling to deliver basic services. By 2002, the DA had turned the municipality around. Its finances were sound and services were delivered like clockwork.

"That year, the DA lost control of the municipality to the ANC, against the will of the voters, through floor-crossing. Two years later, in 2004, the municipality was bankrupt again."

Race issue

Zille said the ANC knew "it will lose on a straight comparison of government performance", with most voters, even if they supported the ruling party, realising the ANC had failed them in this regard.

"This is why the ANC is trying to make the election about something else. Instead of making local service delivery the issue, the ANC is making race the issue. Because race is all the ANC has left.

"We saw it in Midvaal this week, where the local ANC accused the DA-run municipality of prioritising some race groups over others."

Zille said the ANC would try hard to convince people that the DA delivered selectively.

"This is a familiar pattern in complex, plural societies such as ours; the ruling party’s racial rhetoric escalates as its performance in government deteriorates," she said.
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http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Politics/Elections-a-watershed-Helen-Zille-20110318

vote against anc ..... it is a right thing to do . ;)
 
Tell that to the average brainwashed anc voter and all you get is a blank stare.
 
Because race is all the ANC has left.
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Race is all the ANC ever had aside from Mandela, and once he's gone that truly will be all they have left. And they will continue using it to drive a wedge between the people of SA. They don't care what disaster this could lead to, so long as they can keep their vice-like grip on the country, and more importantly, keep stuffing their own pockets.
 
As eye-opening as this is, it's unfortunately preaching to the converted.

Those of us with access to information become educated in politics. However the gross majority in their shacks vote for whoever gives them a food parcel at the voting booths.
 
Voicy said:
As eye-opening as this is, it's unfortunately preaching to the converted.

Those of us with access to information become educated in politics. However the gross majority in their shacks vote for whoever gives them a food parcel at the voting booths.
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You got it wrong, its reminding us why we need to vote and that our vote not only can but actually dose make a difference.

If you had 10 000 registered voters and 30% are DA and the rest ANC, if 100% (3000) of the DA voters voted, but only 2900 41% (2900) of the ANC voters voted, then the DA wins. It might seem like useless stats on paper but this is how the opposition is winning wards. Get all your voters to vote and discourage your opposition through misinformation.

Then you have the next phase where once the DA has been in power, shows it can govern, you then change the mind of others. Look at how the DA won Khayaletsha from the ANC, a ward that I honestly doubt the DA every believed it could win, it was an ANC stronghold. These are shack dwellers that voted for the DA.
 
Voicy said:
As eye-opening as this is, it's unfortunately preaching to the converted.

Those of us with access to information become educated in politics. However the gross majority in their shacks vote for whoever gives them a food parcel at the voting booths.
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I see plentiful with access to information right here but zero understanding of the country's politics. The OP included.
 
marine1 said:
No you have it all wrong, seems you are the one with no understanding, can take a horse to the water.....
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My awesome understanding of politics goes way above your normal run of the mill tia morena merino;)

You on the other are hopelessly always out your depth. I understand why people vote for the ANC and why the right wing now votes for a liberal party.
 
I have a feeling that, given the opportunity, the DA certainly would not shy away from expanding a massive social welfare state, especially considering they could do it more successfully (i.e. steal more efficiently) than the ANC and, thus, garner themselves more votes. Funny how acting like this is called "bribery" and made illegitimate in the private sector, but when done blatantly by the public sector it's somehow noble? Not that I have a problem with bribery, just when your bribes are funded by theft...
 
@R13 Should't one be at least 16 before joining this forum. I bothered to read some of your posts and I must say,one day (as an adult),come back in here and read some of your old posts. You'll have a good laugh at your reasoning :D As Albert Einstein once said: "Intelligence is the ultimate weapon". Peace
 
I am actually just going to vote with my head and vote DA. I don't give a damn about the struggle or racism, I want to vote based on who I best think can lead our beautiful country forward.

We need people to start voting with their heads instead of their hearts. But I suppose that is the crux of the problem with democracy, outside of an emergency situation people vote with their hearts.

Sent from my apple stomping, berry crushing droid! Samsung Galaxy S.
 
Shayd said:
I am actually just going to vote with my head and vote DA. I don't give a damn about the struggle or racism, I want to vote based on who I best think can lead our beautiful country forward.

We need people to start voting with their heads instead of their hearts. But I suppose that is the crux of the problem with democracy, outside of an emergency situation people vote with their hearts.

Sent from my apple stomping, berry crushing droid! Samsung Galaxy S.
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The DA have proven that they've go what it takes by their performance in the Western Cape. If they could win another couple of provinces, if not more, it would be a start for a complete ousting of the ANC. Somehow I doubt that the ANC would willingly give up power, though.

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BlackBox said:
@R13 Should't one be at least 16 before joining this forum. I bothered to read some of your posts and I must say,one day (as an adult),come back in here and read some of your old posts. You'll have a good laugh at your reasoning :D As Albert Einstein once said: "Intelligence is the ultimate weapon". Peace
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I am more informed than most of the sheep here. True story, present company included it would now appear.

You care to point out these juvenile posts, Mr. Old?
 
cbrunsdonza said:
discourage your opposition through misinformation.

Look at how the DA won Khayaletsha from the ANC, a ward that I honestly doubt the DA every believed it could win, it was an ANC stronghold. These are shack dwellers that voted for the DA.
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Sorry man but that is total misinformation right there. Even the papers got it wrong, or tried to make it look this way, but the DA did not win any significant votes in Khayelitsha. They won a ward that was half in Mitchell's Plain, half in Khayelitsha and they won almost exclusively through the coloured vote from the Plain. It was the same story as in a Gugulethu/Heideveld ward, all the papers came out saying the DA "won in Gugulethu" where they only got 79 votes out of 2200 in Gugs and won the ward from the voters in Heideveld (http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/gugulethu-voters-stick-with-anc-1.485460). The DA also has no Khayelitsha wards except the one that sits half in Mitchells Plain, Khayelitsha is still overwhelmingly ANC voting. Strange that you say you're in your local DA but you actually believe they control Khayelitsha or get significant votes from (black) shack dwellers? I guess you admit your plan is to "discourage your opposition through misinformation" so at least you're honest. :p

Unfortunately the DA have still made very little progress in the black townships. I think it'll only improve, but they really only won the Western Cape and any black areas through the coloured vote.

Actually I see it's worse than I thought, when the DA "won" that "Khayelitsha" ward, they got a grand 49 votes out of 2100 in the Khayelitsha polling stations, with the ANC taking virtually every other vote. From the IEC site. Looks like the misinformation campaign backfired on you, you ended up believing it yourself! :)
 
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Alestorm said:
Sorry man but that is total misinformation right there. Even the papers got it wrong, or tried to make it look this way, but the DA did not win any significant votes in Khayelitsha. They won a ward that was half in Mitchell's Plain, half in Khayelitsha and they won almost exclusively through the coloured vote from the Plain. It was the same story as in a Gugulethu/Heideveld ward, all the papers came out saying the DA "won in Gugulethu" where they only got 79 votes out of 2200 in Gugs and won the ward from the voters in Heideveld (http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/gugulethu-voters-stick-with-anc-1.485460). The DA also has no Khayelitsha wards except the one that sits half in Mitchells Plain, Khayelitsha is still overwhelmingly ANC voting. Strange that you say you're in your local DA but you actually believe they control Khayelitsha or get significant votes from (black) shack dwellers? I guess you admit your plan is to "discourage your opposition through misinformation" so at least you're honest. :p

Unfortunately the DA have still made very little progress in the black townships. I think it'll only improve, but they really only won the Western Cape and any black areas through the coloured vote.

Actually I see it's worse than I thought, when the DA "won" that "Khayelitsha" ward, they got a grand 49 votes out of 2100 in the Khayelitsha polling stations, with the ANC taking virtually every other vote. From the IEC site. Looks like the misinformation campaign backfired on you, you ended up believing it yourself! :)
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You my friend will get ignored with your facts. Over here we rather shut our ears and go la la la.
 
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