Sell lacks coalition enthusiasm – high-table stakes, insignificant participants
Having lived through a 2006 fickle marriage between the DA and ID in George, Western Cape, Graham Sell finds it hard to be enthusiastic about coalition politics.
Having lived through a 2006 fickle marriage between the DA and ID in George, Western Cape, Graham Sell finds it hard to be enthusiastic about coalition politics.
Kgosientso Ramokgopa says running a Tshwane where the ANC has control of the majority of wards will be a challenge for the alliance of political parties voting with the DA.
It has been a historic morning in South Africa, with the Nelson Mandela Bay metro and Mogale City municipalities replacing their ANC mayors with candidates nominated by the DA.
The ANC is redoubling campaigning efforts in the capital, Pretoria, which independent polls show is at risk of falling to the opposition in the local government elections.
Support for the ruling ANC has slumped in the capital, Pretoria, following violent protests over the party’s choice of mayoral candidate.
Two people have been killed and 40 arrested since violence broke out in Tshwane, police said on Wednesday.
Eskom had to send a security team with its team to fix a transformer in the heart of the Tshwane civil unrest that had plunged thousands in darkness on Tuesday.
Daniel Silke says Tshwane violence represents all that’s wrong with South Africa. A window into a dystopian political future we need to avoid at all costs.
Graham Sell goes one further saying the upcoming municipal elections are without doubt the most important since 1994, so whatever you do, don’t waste your vote.