The DA’s internal battles were discouraging voters and this could be seen in the outcome of the Western Cape provincial race, an analyst says.
Although none of South Africa’s biggest three parties achieved their projected goals in Wednesday’s elections, at least three things have become crystal clear: The ANC has suffered, the Economic Freedom Fighters is growing and the Democratic Alliance is floating somewhere in the middle.
This, Nthoba believed, could have serious implications, given the trouble political parties have been having in marrying differing ideologies in the case of political horse-trading. He believed that the DA’s loss of voters to the Freedom Front Plus would also have an impact on the decisions they made going forward, namely who they choose to work with.
“KwaZulu-Natal is a good case study for what black politics is going to look like in the near future. People are going to start to make new homes outside of the ANC.”
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