Zille Up Against Boesak

[Lycanthrope]

Democratic Alliance leader and Cape Town mayor Helen Zille announced on Sunday that she will be her party's candidate for premier of the Western Cape in the upcoming elections.

"After considerable discussion with the party leadership I have agreed to be nominated as the Democratic Alliance's premier candidate for the Western Cape," she told a press briefing in Cape Town.

Zille said the DA wanted to wrest control of the province from the African National Congress on April 22 and turn it into the next showcase of DA governance.

She said if it could run both Cape Town and the Western Cape, voters across South Africa would realise that service delivery is better in regions where the DA is in power.

It was therefore strategically more important that she win control of the province than lead the opposition in Parliament, she added

"It is a project of national significance. We want to run the city and the province in co-operative governance and demonstrate what it possible under those circumstances," she said, adding that as mayor she was frustrated by stone-walling on the part of the ANC powers in the province.

Zille said she was confident that the DA would emerge as the biggest party in the Western Cape, but conceded that it might have to enter into a coalition with other parties.

"In the current situation where we are now we are looking set to win the province, but seven weeks is a long time and anything can happen.

"Wherever we don't win outright we will certainly look at coalitions."

While the African National Congress is yet to announce its candidate for premier in the hotly contested province, Allan Boesak confirmed on Friday that he will run for the Congress of the People after earlier turning down the nomination.

Zille said she was unfazed by the cleric, who served jail time for fraud and theft but was later pardoned by former president Thabo Mbeki, and believed his dithering had damaged the fledgling party.

"I feel quite sorry for Allan Boesak and for Cope in the Western Cape because they've had such a bad start. I'm quite relaxed."

She said the DA has been a given a boost by battles within the ANC.

"We are being enormously helped by the internal unravelling of the ANC and this is happening faster than people think."

Zille said smaller parties should realise that their aim is to take support away from the ANC, and not simply redistribute opposition votes between themselves.

"Our role is not to juggle votes between the opposition because that is like re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic."

Source: iAfrica

I think that this is awesome news The DA might not get a big slice of the cake (again) this election, but at least chances are high that they'll have enough of it to keep things sweet

(Omg that was corny) *shoots self*

 

[Lydon]

Excellent move. Slowly but surely they can prove themselves, as they have already with Cape Town as a city.

 

[Sackboy]

Boesak hasn't said "yes" yet has he?

Zille said the DA wanted to wrest control of the province from the African National Congress on April 22 and turn it into the next showcase of DA governance.

Is their City Council a showcase for DA governance? If so, it's a dismal failure and no improvement on the past ANC regime.

 

[BBSA]

Boesak hasn't said "yes" yet has he?

Yes he has:

Allan Boesak has accepted the nomination as a candidate for premier of the Western Cape for the Congress of the People, his spokesperson Penny Festus, said on Friday

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[PeterCH]

Boesak is little fish. If DA top dog Helen Zille needs to be sidetracked by peons like him, we'll it makes the DA leader look very insignificant. What do you guys think?

 

[Lycanthrope]

Boesak is little fish. If DA top dog Helen Zille needs to be sidetracked by peons like him, we'll it makes the DA leader look very insignificant. What do you guys think?

I'm inclined to agree, although I know very little about Boesak. I'm more than content to cheer Zille into her premiership

 

[Morgoth]

a question to the people living in cape town area? how good job did the DA do there?

 

[Sackboy]

A thief minister vs a lying botox injected queen?
Mmmm. Not much choice.

 

[Sackboy]

a question to the people living in cape town area? how good job did the DA do there?

It's all spin IMHO. Services have been cut to the bone and nobody answers the phone/e-mail. They also admit to pandering for the black vote and ignoring their former voter base. Rate increases have gone directly into the economic migrants and refugees in the townships.

 

[Morgoth]

It's all spin IMHO. Services have been cut to the bone and nobody answers the phone/e-mail. They also admit to pandering for the black vote and ignoring their former voter base. Rate increases have gone directly into the economic migrants and refugees in the townships.

heh I thought something of that a typical politician, we get all the votes then we do nothing.

 

[PeterCH]

a question to the people living in cape town area? how good job did the DA do there?

Free booze, pertrol and hookers. I'd say I'm living it up. Gooo DA! Go YES Party! (DA = YES in Russian).

 

[Morgoth]

Free booze, pertrol and hookers. I'd say I'm living it up. Gooo DA! Go YES Party! (DA = YES in Russian).

can I come and visit you for a week or so? keep my spot warm.

 

[PeterCH]

can I come and visit you for a week or so? keep my spot warm.

Why do that. YOU TOO can have all that and more, Vote DA! in your own locality and see the party begin! Say YES! Say DA!

 

[Sackboy]

Why do that. YOU TOO can have all that and more, Vote DA! in your own locality and see the party begin! Say YES! Say DA!

"One nation, one future"
How cheesy!

 

[Morgoth]

dude they hand out free booze and remember the DA delivers!

 

[DAUW]

It's all spin IMHO. Services have been cut to the bone and nobody answers the phone/e-mail. They also admit to pandering for the black vote and ignoring their former voter base. Rate increases have gone directly into the economic migrants and refugees in the townships.

Just remember that we live in a multi racial country.....There is inbalances that needs to be addressed as well......But i honestly do not think that the DA is ignoring their traditional voter base.
However if the ANC had delivered on their promises in CT and sorted out the townships and handled the refugee crisis better, the DA did not have to come and fix their mess(Again)

 

[news24]

Guys, Helen Zille did a better job than most if not all of her counterparts in other provices as mayor of Cape Town. Well I'm not going to vote for DA(I'm politically ignorant), Tony Leon, though a strong leader, made me hate DA to the bone, because of always blaming the poor for everything that goes wrong(i.e. Global warming).

Anyways, DA is reborn, has good selfless leaders, and its a party that many should look to. All I can say, vote DA or COPE, these are the two parties that are going to lead Western Cape this year.