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Priapus said:
Good. I am glad she has fight in her.

I'm in CT for a bit.. man you guys have it nice here. Though I am only in the CBD - I have to wonder if other parts of CT are as clean and orderly. Might even consider moving here.
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Not all parts of the city are nice. The leafy southern suburbs are quite a bit nicer than places east of the M5.
 
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Inertia said:
Yes, they already did this in the Western Cape. Listen carefully.
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So Bongani actually did not trade anything, some conditional premiership position is not a thing until it becomes a thing, so wake me up when the DA does govern Gauteng, then we'll talk about what he has lost out on.
 
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PrimeSteak said:
ANC won't hand in any argument probably (since they have none).

I think the docs from Rama's time at the head of the Cadre Deployment Committee will be spicy.
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I'll put good money on them not actually existing...
 
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TheChamp said:
www.citizen.co.za

High court orders ANC to pay DA’s costs in cadre deployment case | The Citizen

The ANC has been given 10 days to file its court papers or else it will be forced to release the records of the committee from 2013.
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10 days to file papers.

Yeah that's funny.

There is more chance of peace on Earth.

Request a postponement.
Our client suddenly fell ill, could take a while. Eish.
Lawyers resign / are fired, could take a while. Eish.
Mpofu pops in to demand the minority verdict must win.
Christmas break.
Stalingrada Continua.
 
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Great, more firearms in criminals hands.

Gauteng officers are searching for three suspects who robbed the Devon police station in Ekurhuleni and fled with 10 firearms, including three rifles.

Police spokesperson Col Athlenda Mathe said the police were robbed in the early hours of Wednesday.

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Thieves rob Ekurhuleni police station, make off with 10 firearms

The suspects disarmed on-duty police officers and escaped with 10 firearms.
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PrimeSteak said:
www.dailymaverick.co.za

NEW POLITICAL VISION OP-ED: We need to find an escape from ‘choiceless democracy’

Many of us who have been tied to the liberation Struggle for very long are not overjoyed when the ANC strong-arms its way into a position of power or buys its way into power or works with discredited organisations to achieve this.
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Suttner is an idiot. To summarize every single op-ed he’s ever written: “I’ll only ever vote ANC and no one else. I can’t vote ANC anymore and therefore the system is broken”
 
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TheChamp said:
Didn't the others pull the same stunt, resign from their position and not from our DA, oy to resign from our DA some time later? Maybe people have a right to be suspicious.
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It's strategic. He will almost certainly leave the party.

He did good work to grow the party in KZN and it got its highest ever voting percentage in KZN under him but trust that he will be called incompetant soon. He was an ally of Maimane as well so his days were always going to be numbered under the new regime, especially as he did not rebrand himself.
 
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JuliusSeizure said:
It's strategic. He will almost certainly leave the party.

He did good work to grow the party in KZN and it got its highest ever voting percentage in KZN under him but trust that he will be called incompetant soon. He was an ally of Maimane as well so his days were always going to be numbered under the new regime, especially as he did not rebrand himself.
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That's why Mashaba chased you away when you start showing signs, he got tired of people resigning in dribs and drabs.
 
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The_Right_Honourable_Brit said:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1577905146956226561

Something I can agree with Dawie on, for once! The PA momentum has been stopped - I do recall a by-election not too long ago where the PA vote collapsed in favour of the DA...
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Yup.

They've committed seppuku by working with ANC nationally. NNP syndrome (the coined term for this kind of thing by yours truly).

And yeah, PA is getting nailed for it. We've seen it in Prince Albert and Matzikama.
 
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www.dailymaverick.co.za

BLAXIT: Zwakele Mncwango resigns as DA’s KZN chief whip, says party no longer represents aspirations of majority

Zwakele Mncwango’s announcement of his resignation from the KZN legislature on Wednesday morning caught many political pundits by surprise. He remains a DA member.
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He's leaning into the "DA RIGHT WING NOW" narrative, etc.

He's heading to ASA most likely, a lot of times recently those who leave the DA who come up with **** like that head out to COPE: DA, I mean ASA...
 
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PrimeSteak said:
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BLAXIT: Zwakele Mncwango resigns as DA’s KZN chief whip, says party no longer represents aspirations of majority

Zwakele Mncwango’s announcement of his resignation from the KZN legislature on Wednesday morning caught many political pundits by surprise. He remains a DA member.
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He's leaning into the "DA RIGHT WING NOW" narrative, etc.

He's heading to ASA most likely, a lot of times recently those who leave the DA who come up with **** like that head out to COPE: DA, I mean ASA...
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I still don't get how the DA is apparently right-wing. If they're right-wing, what the hell would the IFP and VF+ be then? Extremists?
 
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GOVERNANCE OP-ED: Small parties, big influence: What can be done about unstable coalition governments?

The instability of many coalition and minority governments formed at the local level after the 2021 municipal elections may well be replicated in the other spheres of government if no party wins an overall majority in the National Assembly, or in some provincial legislatures, at the next...
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But there is one, rather radical, change to the electoral system that could help to reduce the instability of governments in legislatures where no party enjoys an overall majority.
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This would be to impose an electoral threshold, requiring a political party to obtain a minimum percentage of the votes to qualify for seats in a legislature.
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Good idea, really.
 
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