The DA is in total crisis.

Do the DA need a new leader?

  • Yes

    Votes: 188 55.6%
  • No

    Votes: 64 18.9%
  • MMusi saw this poll and resigned.

    Votes: 17 5.0%
  • Epstein didn't kill himself.

    Votes: 69 20.4%
  • Please change the thread title

    Votes: 41 12.1%

  • Total voters
    338
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Excalibur

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They are not called the Desperate Alliance for nothing, we're they not telling people that the ANC is going to expropriate all their belongings just a couple of days ago?
They don't know whether they are coming or going, no leadership or strategy.
 

Excalibur

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This is highly disappointing from Steenhuisen. The ANC is unable to be reformed. You cant go into a coalition with party whose sole aim in power is simply to enrich privileged cronies.
But when you know you can never win power on your own you resort to this kind of thing.
 
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But when you know you can never win power on your own you resort to this kind of thing.

True. I see SA slowly becoming more like most Western European nations with proportional representation electoral systems where the leading party usually only gets between 35-40% of the vote.

I see the Steenhuisen's electoral calculus here: EFF as a coalition partner is off the table but in most municipalities, only option to form a stable coalition would be between the big three parties...and obviously DA regards the EFF and ANC RET faction as worse than any Ramaphosa led ANC but it's still not something I am on board with at all as a Ramaphosa-led ANC is still pushing policies that are strongly opposed by the vast majority of DA voters.
 

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True. I see SA slowly becoming more like most Western European nations with proportional representation electoral systems where the leading party usually only gets between 35-40% of the vote.

I see the Steenhuisen's electoral calculus here: EFF as a coalition partner is off the table but in most municipalities, only option to form a stable coalition would be between the big three parties...and obviously DA regards the EFF and ANC RET faction as worse than any Ramaphosa led ANC but it's still not something I am on board with at all as a Ramaphosa-led ANC is still pushing policies that are strongly opposed by the vast majority of DA voters.
For things to actually work in this country that scenario should become a reality. I am hoping we get to a point where the difference between the leading party and the so-called opposition party or parties is something like 2 to 5 percent of the votes.
 

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They are not called the Desperate Alliance for nothing, we're they not telling people that the ANC is going to expropriate all their belongings just a couple of days ago?
What you mean going to? Here is the proof that it is done. This guy is top shelf and he knows stuff that you can't even dream about. I am expecting more details on this one soon.

Land has already been expropriated.
 

JuliusSeizure

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This is highly disappointing from Steenhuisen. The ANC is unable to be reformed. You cant go into a coalition with party whose sole aim in power is simply to enrich privileged cronies.

It's been known for a long time that Steenhuisen is not the sharpest tool. If the DA picked their leader "on merit", he definitely would have not been the leader.

I don't know why right-leaning DA voters think he is really the right man to fix the party.
 
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