Opinion: The DA assigned all its councillors specific numbers that they had to mark on their ballot papers. Click here to read more ➡️
A general view during a City of Tshwane council sitting on 21 April 2022 in Pretoria, South Africa. Picture: Gallo Images/Beeld/Deaan Viver
Hypocrisy is defined as a situation in which someone – or some political party, for instance – pretends to believe something that they do not really believe, or that is the opposite of what they do or say. The Democratic Alliance , the self-proclaimed defender of our democracy, is guilty of political hypocrisy … and that is not a good look for a party hoping to unsettle the parliamentary landscape, come 2024.At the elections for the new speaker of Tshwane this week, the DA assigned all its councillors specific numbers, which they had to mark on their ballot papers. This would enable the party to instantly identify, when the ballots were revealed later, if any of its councillors had betrayed it.
This, if the DA didn’t notice – or did and put political expediency above principle – would negate the stipulated secret ballot. The irony – or hypocrisy – is that the DA fought tooth and nail in a number of parliamentary no-confidence votes to have the process held by secret ballot. The party claimed this was to allow the freedom for ANC MPs to vote with their consciences without fear of reprisal.
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