De Lille’s new party is off to a fairly good start
Ahead of a formal Ipsos poll scheduled for January, the Good party already has about 60,000 members
Former Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille’s new political party Good has already won the support of about 60,000 people across the country with a strong contingent coming from Gauteng. These are the people who have joined up through the party’s website and were captured on its database up to December 21. Most Western Cape supporters have not yet been captured, which could change the profile of Good’s support base. “It is going very well in Gauteng, and especially in the big cities. I am very happy with the response from young people,” De Lille said in an interview on Monday, though she cautioned that a lot of work is still required to spread awareness of the existence of Good. De Lille who resigned from the DA and as Cape Town mayor at the end of October after about 18 months of bitter fighting with the DA leadership said that support for Good is coming from people who are disillusioned with the ANC, DA and EFF. This is Good’s target market; Good will be appealing to the disillusione...
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