An IRR official says Maimane's ambitions of winning the Northern Cape are only realistic in the long run.
DA leader Mmusi Maimane launched the party's 2019 Northern Cape elections manifesto in Kimberley. PHOTO: DA Twitter
The Institute for Race Relations has termed the province the “dark horse” of the poll and pointed out that the ANC managed to grow here in the past partly because a swathe of the North West, a party stronghold, was incorporated into the Northern Cape in 2000. “We’ve been in and out of there and back,” he added, pointing to an insistent campaign drive that last weekend included Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom.
Instead, he has been held up by Mmusi Maimane as a symbol of a thieving, apathetic ruling class as he campaigned from Kuruman and Douglas to sell the DA’s vision of jobs created by reviving local industries like game farming, agriculture, and mining. But this comes at a time when the DA’s record of governance – and its vote share – in the Western Cape is challenged by an ANC no longer weighted down by Jacob Zuma and by Patricia de Lille, who was a strong opposition force in the Northern Cape when she headed the Independent Democrats.
But the party has been in turmoil here with three councillors in the key John Taolo Gaetsewe municipal district – which includes Kuruman, Laxey and Churchill – expelled for accusing its top leadership of abusing party funds and indulging a love for French label Louis Vuitton while selling the province’s poorest “false hope”.
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