Action SA is smart they know the DA will never drop those racists Ciliers and Helen. Essentially they are saying we will form government with you in Tshwane and Joburg when pigs fly.
Men’s wandering dicks crash economies and their fragile egos start wars, but somehow women are still “too emotional” to lead. The irony is fucking hilarious.
I sleep well at night knowing thst I've given my vote to such sober leaders who are Not Easily compromised but stand on the truth and principles, we're led well under ActionSA 💚💚💚💚💚💚🇿🇦
Is this the same DA that went to the White House to tell Trump their main purpose is to stop MK and EFF from taking over? DA is such a hypocritical party; MK and EFF must reject them.
@CityofJoburgZA is a CRIME Scene. @Our_DA put the best candidate forward and 2 out of every 3 votes went elsewhere. That is an epic failure. They miss all their Black leaders
Technically, the African National Congress (ANC) and the other parties can block the Democratic Alliance (DA) from governing Johannesburg, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni. That is the technical side of it.
The reality is different. The DA won the most votes in all three metros, more than any other party that contested. It does not have the 50 percent plus one required by law to form a government on its own, but the voters put it first.
If all the other parties gang up to block the DA, they can do it, and they can share the mayoral chains and other positions among themselves. But then they will have to deliver.
If they fail to deliver before 2029, there will be a bloodbath at the ballot box. Urban voters, in most of South African cities, will turn against the ANC, ActionSA and every other party that helped block a DA mayor in metros where the DA leads every other party in votes.
Some ANC leaders say the ANC lost votes because of the DA. That is not true. Others blame the Government of National Unity (GNU). That is a lie.
The ANC was already losing votes before the GNU was formed in 2024. It lost them because it failed to deliver, failed to stop corruption and failed to bring competence to government.
I live in Johannesburg. Residents here receive water bills of six or seven thousand rand. I had to remove myself from postpaid electricity because I was getting bills of four to five thousand rand a month, even though I was off the grid most of the time.
Since moving to prepaid, I spend less than four thousand rand a year on electricity, because my solar system carries the house. That is how dysfunctional the system is.
People are not voting against the ANC because they hate black leaders. They are voting against it because they hate corruption, they hate the lack of service delivery and they hate incompetence.
Until those three evils are dealt with, the ANC and its many offshoots, uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), together with the DA offshoot ActionSA, can band together against the DA all they like. If they do not deliver, they will lose even more.
Most South Africans alive today were born after 1994, and they make up a growing share of voters. They have no emotional umbilical cord to the liberation struggle that can be whipped up at election time. They want jobs, they want services that work, they want competent leaders and they do not want corruption.
Bookmark this post. If the DA is blocked and the parties that blocked it fail to deliver, it will be the death knell for those parties. The ANC will be reduced to 20 percent in 2029, and South Africa could have a white president from the DA in 2029, not 2034 as some analysts have predicted.
Politics is a science, not a game of emotions. The emotions belong to the liberation struggle. The science is about whether people can put food on the table, whether they receive basic services, and whether the councils they deal with are honest and competent.
As I said, about one in five registered voters in this election were not yet born in 1994. The largest group of voters is aged between 30 and 39, people who were small children or not even born when apartheid ended. They have no memory of the struggle to be stirred up at election time.
What they know is unemployment, broken water pipes, power cuts and corrupt councillors. They judge parties on that, not on what happened before they were old enough to remember.
Under ActionSA, ANC, EFF and other parties' leadership, after 8 years of DA"s destruction of Tshwane, turned the fate of our Capital City around in just 2 years.
We don't need the arrogant DA to succeed. That narrative is dead and buried.
Cyril is the best example of trickle down not working. A billionaire that actually had the power to change things, got richer while SAns just became poorer under his watch.
Either the DA knows the EFF is not the threat to the country they make them out to be, or the DA is happy to partner with the devil. Its will not be the first time either.
Every day Helen Zille shows you how out of touch and racist she is. And every day the media listens to her drivel wide eyed and in awe. Just like American MSM used to with Trump. Yet it all became undone. The DA is in the same decline.
Ag shut up you racist hypocrite. "Well said?" The hypocrisy. I've seen your vile posts questioning MY presence in Washington, MY taking up MY opportunities. You have been in that brigade of "She fled South Africa...What is she doing in DC....she's enjoying the benefits..." It's okay when someone of your skin colour does it. But not someone who is different. Someone Black doesn't deserve it
All you racist bigots, White and Black are the same and deserve each other. A pity we have to live with you. Funny, none of your insults compelled me to block you. Not worth it. But this "compliment" confirms an ugly side of you. You've overstayed your welcome. Bye....
𝗚𝗔𝗬𝗧𝗢𝗡 𝗠𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗡𝗭𝗜𝗘
Mark my words: ActionSA will run the City of Tshwane and the City of Jhb through the support of the ANC
Herman Mashaba and Nasiphi Moya will be Executive Mayors.
The ANC will be given Ekurhuleni to run.
Helen Zille & Cilliers Brink will not be mayors in Jhb & Tshwane.
The DA will be the biggest losers after these elections
That's why Geordin Hill Lewis is desperately trying to talk to anyone, even MKP & EFF. He can see that the ANC is about to outplay the DA
𝗚𝗔𝗬𝗧𝗢𝗡 𝗠𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗡𝗭𝗜𝗘
Mark my words: ActionSA will run the City of Tshwane and the City of Jhb through the support of the ANC
Herman Mashaba and Nasiphi Moya will be Executive Mayors.
The ANC will be given Ekurhuleni to run.
Helen Zille & Cilliers Brink will not be mayors in Jhb & Tshwane.
The DA will be the biggest losers after these elections
That's why Geordin Hill Lewis is desperately trying to talk to anyone, even MKP & EFF. He can see that the ANC is about to outplay the DA
Many of us who grew up with a reverence for the ANC have mourned its demise. We were labeled " DA coconuts, clever blacks, counter revolutionaries " because those who wear ANC regalia believe they have legitimacy.
They ignored the umbilical chord that tied us to this party and the painful separation that HAD to happen because of its own conduct. The party chose itself and not "the people." They didn't ask WHY. So with that in mind, I respond to you.
My dear sister, what, exactly, is a “black party”? A party founded by black people? Led by black people? Supported by black voters? And what happens when its leaders steal from the people whose racial identity they share?
Does a black official who loots a public institution advance black power? Does a black politician who protects corruption become progressive by virtue of pigmentation? What liberation reaches a black household when money intended for its water, electricity, healthcare or education disappears?
A party that helped teach the world the meaning of non-racial liberation cannot respond to electoral rejection by dividing South Africans into racial camps and suggesting that black voters who choose differently are restoring colonial rule. If the ANC has abandoned its commitment to non-racialism, its leadership must tell us. PUBLICLY. And explain which conference authorised that departure.
Because history and documents say otherwise.
In 1955, the Congress of the People adopted the Freedom Charter, declaring that “South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white”.
Albert Luthuli addressed precisely this in his 1961 Nobel lecture. He explained that the liberation movement had consciously rejected the easy mobilisation of racial resentment, despite the brutality inflicted on black South Africans. He described its vision as “a nonracial, democratic South Africa”. The refusal to answer racial oppression with racial exclusion was a considered political choice.
Mandela expressed that commitment at Rivonia in 1964: “I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination.” Those words placed a moral limit on the exercise of power, including power exercised by black leaders.
The ANC translated principle into organisational decisions. At Morogoro in 1969, it opened membership to South Africans of all races, although the NEC remained restricted to Africans. At Kabwe in 1985, it removed that leadership restriction. Tambo subsequently described the opening of membership as “a giant leap forward towards the true nonracialism within the ANC”.
These were deliberate changes to who could belong and who could lead. So wena what are you saying here? And is this the party's position or are you all saying what you want, when you want?
The constitution adopted at the ANC’s 2022 conference retains non-racialism as part of the organisation’s defining character. Rule 3.4 commits it to combating racial, tribal and ethnic exclusivism or chauvinism. None of this requires silence about racism, white economic power or the enduring distribution of deprivation along racial lines.
The people harmed by corruption do not experience it less brutally because the person responsible looks like them. You invoke historical and dialectical materialism. This makes your argument especially vacuous. A serious materialist analysis would examine ownership, class interests, institutions, labour and the distribution of resources. Counting parties by the presumed race of their leaders tells us remarkably little about whose interests those parties actually serve.
Black citizens are entitled to withdraw support from a party that disappoints them. Their freedom includes the right to reject the ANC without being accused of betraying their people. You celebrate the political wisdom of black voters when they support you, then diagnose their ignorance when they leave?
You, @MYANC abandoned us. YOU have made us a laughing stock. Don't you dare preach to us about what we do next.