The reality of the DA’s emasculated position across the metropolitan councils it formerly controlled is that it is a consequence of the party’s many mistakes and lost opportunities over the past five or six years.

The situation is serious and may even be dire for the party. But it is not irreversible or terminal, provided the new leadership ignores naysayers and takes necessary steps to realign the party’s principles, policies, direction and political actions in parliament, legislatures, councils and on the streets...

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