Boardroom Talk – DA’s Western Cape base is rock solid; Gayton, Herman missing a trick

By Alec Hogg

Even though our company was primarily established to provide insights and context on business and investments, we've been paying considerable attention to South Africa's political scene. That's rational because politics supersedes economics in a developing country like ours (P>E). So, in SA, politics matters a great deal.

Part of this process has been keeping a close eye on municipal by-election results to gauge the electorate's temperature and tapping into the minds of the best political scientists. RW Johnson provides meat for the statistical bones. People like Frans Cronje help flesh out a fuller picture.

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