The SA Politics Thread Part 3

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The_Right_Honourable_Brit said:
Shame, just another mickey mouse political party that will achieve very little...what we need in SA is FEWER political parties. More political parties mostly benefits the ANC...

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'Return democracy to the people': Rise Mzansi leaders say SA ripe for change | News24

A new political party, Rise Mzansi, has been launched and its leaders have warned the 2024 national elections were a critical turning point for the country.
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Interesting column for one-time Cyril praise singer Peter Bruce.

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PETER BRUCE: Gayton McKenzie, ‘moonshot’ kingmaker?

The PA leader could make a real difference to what might otherwise be a grouping of the obvious in an election where citizens are desperate for change
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There is a factual error here - PB has added ward + PR votes, even though people usually vote for the same party on the ward and PR ballot, so the "real" total is around 114k (the bigger of the ward/PR totals) + 38000 in DC votes, so around 150k. Still impressive, but PB should really not to be educated on such a rookie error. I always suspect PA won't get such high totals in a national election when the average voter considers their vote a little more seriously. Registering a protest vote is easier at ward level than provincial/national level.

The PA won only 6,660 votes in the 2019 general election, 0.04% of the vote. But it took nearly 265,000 votes in the 2021 local government elections, or about 0.9% of the vote.

The DA is conflicted about McKenzie. Some people regard him as a buffoon, but he is also a real threat in the DA’s backyard, the Western Cape. The PA has disrupted the conventional wisdom which held that where coloured voters felt secure they would vote for the ANC and where they felt threatened by black African migration from the rest of the country into the Western Cape, they would vote DA.

That no longer applies in quite the way it once did. When DA leader John Steenhuisen sent invitations two weeks ago to party leaders to join him in talks to construct a political “moonshot pact” ahead of the elections next year, McKenzie was not invited.
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But Steenhuisen and McKenzie met, informally, last week, for dinner at the home of FF+ éminence grise Corné Mulder. There was horse-trading and McKenzie has made little secret of the fact that, by late last week, he and his party were on the move again. He was disenchanted with the ANC.

That could only be a good thing. He told Alec Hogg that all he expected of the DA, for him to join the “moonshot pact”, was that the DA support Herman Mashaba’s motion of no-confidence against Amad and Makhubele. That was setting a pretty low bar. The DA, surely, would be delighted to see the back of Amad?

What’s more, having sworn in February never to work with Helen Zille, McKenzie last week walked that back too. “It was childish,” he told Hogg last Wednesday. “I’ve also had to relook at my statement about how I don’t want to work with Helen Zille, which I think is childish. It was a childish statement. It’s not about individuals here. It’s about people’s lives. And I reflected on my statement and I just realised that I don’t have the right to tell the DA who they should send to meetings. The DA does not have the right to tell me they can’t work with anybody in the PA. So I think there was a foolish statement I made simply because Helen Zille is the leader of a party and everybody feels that she should represent them, I should respect them because it’s not about her and it’s not about me.”


And Steenhuisen was good now too — “pragmatic” and “a nice guy”.
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Priapus said:
Those poor people of uMngeni. Best they show the ANC what they think of this at next years elections.
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I just hope DA can block this move by ANC. But then again it's typical gerrymandering by the GLM...

They've tried in CPT, NMB, and now uMngeni. Where the Moonshot/DA gets into gov, ANC will do anything to get them out, even subvert municipal systems.
 
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