PICTURE: RUSSELL ROBERTS Memes — those social media images that go viral on the internet — were in overdrive this week to herald the improbable trifecta of major cities captured by the opposition DA.Impressive sightings of Jesus Christ — bathed in a halo — were posted against the backdrops of Nelson Mandela Bay in Port Elizabeth, the Union Buildings in Pretoria and, finally on Monday night, walking across the Nelson Mandela Bridge in Johannesburg.Jacob Zuma was, of course, the president who fatuously proclaimed that his party would rule until "Jesus returned". Hence these viral sightings.Last month in this space I suggested that if Mmusi Maimane and his party did not win one metro beyond the party's Western Cape confines, then both his leadership and the prospects of democratic change in the country would be open to question, or several of them.By posting a hat-trick of metro victories, with the energetic if not eccentric support of the EFF, on the basis that the DA was the "better ...
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