CAROL PATON: Zille’s return to wounded DA may lead to more bleeding
Party has been split into two factions, mainly along racial lines, and the prognosis does not look good
21 October 2019 - 16:23
In the May election the DA’s share of the vote declined by 1.5 percentage points, while the ANC’s dropped by 4.7% points. But it is the DA that is imploding before our eyes while the ANC continues on its merry dysfunctional way. Why?
In the ANC, when bad things happen they are seldom regarded as the fault of an individual or group of leaders but as a fatalistic outcome of difficult circumstances induced by something or something else. In the DA, accountability counts. It is people, especially leaders, who make mistakes, and there are few second chances...
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