Boardroom Talk: Bad news for 2024 Rainbow Coalition – ASA, PA are out if DA’s Zille stays involved

By Alec Hogg

Judging by their contributions to BNC#5 last week, SA's two fastest-growing political parties, which the DA-led Rainbow Coalition (anti-ANC/EFF) will need to get over the 50% line in next year's election, are currently doubtful participants. Their leaders say unless 72-year-old Helen Zille leaves DA leadership, they won't participate. 

Gayton MacKenzie, the founder of the Patriotic Alliance, used his keynote address to rant about Zille even more intensely than his populist favourites of illegal foreigners and the death penalty. Herman Mashaba of Action SA was more measured but equally critical. Which seems counter-productive. The DA is unlikely to allow competitors to dictate its leadership choices at next month's congress.

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