Parties need to stop bickering and begin co-operating if SA wants to rid itself of ANC misrule
There is an absolutist streak in the behaviour of many SA opposition parties. While most opposition politicians seem to have accepted that coalitions are the future of SA politics, a few still seem married to the idea that they must defeat the ANC alone and become the sole governing party.
Yet this hasn’t been the case. For instance, minority partners in the DA-led coalition in Johannesburg almost torpedoed the coalition in an attempted coup against the mayor in 2022, threatening to hand back control of the city to the party that destroyed it in the first place. ActionSA in particular appears to have a vendetta against the DA.Yet on paper the DA and ActionSA should be allies.
This may leave a sour taste in the mouth of many ambitious politicians, but it is necessary. ActionSA is wasting an immense amount of time, resources and goodwill trying to oust the DA in the Western Cape, for instance. And the DA is fighting a lost cause trying to win over voters in Gauteng townships that are far more amenable to voting for ActionSA.
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