Tag Archives: DA

Election confusion

By 6000 | 6000 | April 20, 2011

With the municipal elections just 4 weeks away, the ANC have launched a new tactic to confuse the local electorate into voting (presumably) for them. A couple of weeks ago, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe admitted that the party had no chance of winning the Cape Town Municipality from the incumbent DA: At first, I thought that this was [...]

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Tony Leon on Concubinegate

By 6000 | 6000 | May 22, 2009

Former DA leader Tony Leon spoke out today on the Concubinegate affair (that’s my name for it, anyway), in which current DA leader and Emperor of the Western Cape, Helen Zille had a pop at Jacob Zuma’s habits of sleeping around. Whatever “sleeping around” actually means. Floyd? It’s an excellent analysis of the situation, drawing on his years [...]

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I’m not Zille-bashing, but…

By 6000 | 6000 | May 11, 2009

This article on news24 does rather seem to continue the “OMG, we’re all… doomed… doomed!”  scare tactics thread that characterised the DA’s final approach to the elections last month. And while I recognise that it is Zille’s and the DA’s job to question the Government, I’m not quite sure what value there is in criticising each [...]

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DA landslide ‘destroys Zuma, ANC’

By 6000 | 6000 | April 23, 2009

Democratic Alliance take shock landslide victory in South African elections, suggests exit poll. According to the results of an exit poll conducted during the National and Provincial elections yesterday and published after the ballots had closed in the late evening, the DA is heading for a unprecedented landslide victory over the much-fancied ANC and seems likely to take [...]

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Stop Zuma?

By 6000 | 6000 | April 20, 2009

Impossible, my dear. Yet that’s seemingly been the sole aim of Helen Zille and the Democratic Alliance over the past, final week of campaigning before the election. And it’s a tactic which has drawn criticism from many quarters for it’s negativity and single-minded determination to go after JZ, while there are plenty of major issues and challenges which need addressing [...]

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