DA MP Leon Schreiber told
Mail & Guardian on Saturday that the DA would not wait for something to go wrong before acting, adding that the party would rather identify any risks beforehand.
He said that South Africa was about to experience traumatic political change in the 2024 elections.
“We have had almost 30 years of one-party rule under the ANC, but we must never forget that even preceding democracy there was one-party rule for 40 years. We are looking at 70 years of entrenched culture — or the idea of South African politics that there is one dominant party in charge.
“The change of government we had in 1994 was a change in regime but it wasn’t a classic election loss in the sense of constitutional democracies around that world. It means that this would be — should the ANC fall below 50% and be removed from government — the very first time a government in the history of this country has been removed from the ballot box democratically in an election where everyone has voted. It has never happened before.”
Schrieber added that the DA also took into consideration the
July unrest in 2021 and the occasional outbreaks of violence seen at political settings in the country.
He said that the resolution was something a responsible opposition should take seriously, and was not intended to “cause alarm or sow fear”.
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