ALEXANDER PARKER: DA’s rancorous past may mean it has little choice but to team up with ANC
Many parties that would need to join the coalition to unseat the governing party come with virulent personal animus against the official opposition
28 November 2022 - 05:06
Towards the end of August, during one of those “we’re the grown-ups” presidential addresses the party is fond of, DA leader John Steenhuisen said the DA would “not allow the ANC and its proxy parties to sabotage the future of our country”.
He was referring to the rolling mess in metro coalition politics. It did make me think; if the ANC has some difficult changes to make to prepare itself for either opposition or coalition government, you could argue that the DA has just as hard a journey...
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