The DA’s plan to upset the elections
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The
leading opposition party in South Africa, the Democratic Alliance (DA), has
billed the August 3 2016 municipal elections in the country as the most
important ever. The word “change” dominates the party’s posters.
But
the DA is wrong: August 3 will not be the most important electoral date in
South Africa – 1994 remains the most momentous year, when black people voted
for the first time in the country’s history.
To
an outside observer, the word “change” might suggest that the governing African
National Congress (ANC) will no longer be the majority party in South Africa
after the elections. But those who follow South African politics closely know
that such a thing is not about to happen.
The
change the DA is touting is the expectation that the ANC might lose three
closely contested metros: the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality on the Indian
Ocean coast; Johannesburg, the country’s economic heart; and Tshwane, South
Africa’s capital city.
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