2019 ELECTIONS: RESULTS : SA’s unlikely winners: Some small parties defy critics to take parliamentary seats By Rebecca Davis becsplanb
When you launch two different political parties on two separate occasions within a decade and a half, you can expect diminishing returns from voters.
Back in the mists of time when she was an MP for the Pan Africanist Congress , De Lille’s National Assembly appearances were famous for her fiery rants. Let’s hope the GOOD party’s zen-lite positivity mantras haven’t doused her fighting spirit. Manyi was playing a leading role in mobilising what is being called “the coalition of the wounded”: between 30 and 35 small parties who have been using the past two days to call for “a rerun of the elections which will be inclusive and well safeguarded” in response to poor results.
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