Are Solly Msimanga and Herman Mashaba the next DA dominoes to fall?
If the ANC and EFF work together, they could remove the DA from leadership in Tshwane and Johannesburg
The 2016 municipal election was a watershed moment for the ANC. It lost its majority in the metros of Johannesburg, Tshwane and Nelson Mandela Bay. But two years is a very long time in politics. Back then, the EFF swore it would never work with the ANC, choosing to ally itself with the DA instead. This led to the DA forming minority governments in all three metros.
But since then, Julius Malema's nemesis, Jacob Zuma, has left the stage and the new ANC president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has mounted a charm offensive with the EFF. He backed an EFF proposal to amend the constitution to allow for land expropriation without compensation and has even called on Julius Malema to return to the ANC fold. The result has been deflating for the EFF and perhaps the calculation has been made that the fastest route to power is to get back in with the ANC. Cue the roiling politics of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro where the (former?) DA mayor, Athol Trollip, has been skating on thin ice since alienati...
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