You did not vote for ActionSA. No one who voted for ActionSA wants them to work with the DA; we saw what the DA did to Tshwane, and that's the last thing we want. Not to say they shouldn’t go into coalition with the DA, but it should be the last option. In short, you did not in any way vote for ActionSA.
Those of us who voted for ActionSA trust they will put people first. All you doubters are just DA voters trying to bend ActionSA to the DA's demands.
DA didn’t win anything. If the DA had won those metros there would be no need for coalitions.🥹 They got 34% of votes in Johannesburg that may be a majority but it is not winning. Winning is getting 51% of the votes. Hope this helps.
#KnowYourDA supporters.
Mashaba’s pettiness is delicious. What a treat! He has made himself abundantly clear. His party doesn’t have a DA problem. They have a Zille and Brink problem. Now, if the DA is indeed the messiah Johannesburg has been waiting for, surely the party has other capable messiahs it can deploy? Or does the Israeli anointing only work on Zille?
Kubo Bra Hermie. Don’t cower. No retreat, no surrender!
And the suggestion that both Action SA and the DA are beneficiaries of the same funders makes this sibling rivalry all the more delicious. A proper family feud.
Such weakness analysis. White is only 8% so why bother. White consolidated towards opposition. Black went looking for alternatives because of @MYANC actions. ANC and DA struggling to reflect properly @SizweMpofuWalsh
[WATCH] THE DANGERS OF A FRAGMENTED BLACK VOTE
The term decline is correct, we dropped from 45% to about 30%, which is a 15% decline, so that is a correct characterisation. So when you characterise a 15% percent decline as catastrophic, it’s also correct. But what I want to people to analyse as well is the fragmentation of the black voter base. We have 520 political parties that contested Local Government Elections, almost all of them besides 3 or 4 are black parties. Some won and some didn’t but the reality of the matter so many parties dilute and weaken the black vote and its influence.The white vote consolidates whilst the black vote fragments.
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@DemocracyShark Why do you say ActionSA & DA have more in common in local government? DA wants to sell city assets like in Cape Town. ActionSA wants to build internal capacity. Come on!
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.