If I had a rand for every time someone predicted the demise of the DA, I’d be wealthier than the average tenderpreneur.

Koert Meyer’s is the latest attempt at political fortune telling, and one sincerely hopes that he has better luck predicting the lottery, because in spite of losing a few, mostly marginal, wards the DA remains the second-largest party in SA, the most diverse and the only party to beat both the ANC and FF+ in by elections in the same city. The result in Pretoria was particularly important, given that the FF+ threw everything they had into taking on the DA and still couldn’t make it. No wonder they don’t bother taking on the ANC, which the DA beat comprehensively in two wards in the governing party’s heartland of the Eastern Cape...

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