DAVE CHAMBERS: Meet the new DA - it's just like the old ANC
'As Cyril Ramaphosa transforms perceptions of the ANC, the DA displays the kind of arrogance voters have become used to in the nine years of Jacob Zuma’s presidency'
Meetings of the DA federal executive should be televised as demonstrations of how to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Even without the benefit of witnessing what are presumably exercises in tortured logic if not outright idiocy, the outcomes of these meetings tell us everything we need to know about the party’s incipient decline. Almost simultaneously with Cyril Ramaphosa’s instantaneous transformation of perceptions of the ANC, the DA has displayed the kind of arrogance voters have become used to in the nine years of Jacob Zuma’s presidency. Unless the slide can be arrested by an outbreak of common sense, history will trace its origins to Sunday January 14, when party leader Mmusi Maimane announced the federal executive’s decision that Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille would be investigated by the party’s legal commission. In the meantime, he said, the DA caucus in the City of Cape Town would be instructed to replace her as the leader of the council’s war on Day Zero. The ca...
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