Listening to parties go on about how they “will never go into a coalition with the ANC” you realise ANC will have to beg to stay in power.
Listening to political parties go on about how they “will never go into a coalition with the ANC” and “anyone but the ruling party”, you realise the once-glorious movement of Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela has been reduced to a party that will have to beg and grovel at the feet of smaller and emerging parties to stay in power in many municipalities. The smaller parties, now more than ever before, have a real voice in who gets to govern, more...
Should citizens be alarmed at the prospect of five years of tug-of-wars between coalition partners at the expense of service delivery? Five years ago, the DA was in the same position in Tshwane and Nelson Mandela Bay and desperate to keep the ANC out of government, so they went into a coalition with the party their supporters would have considered their last option – the EFF.
The lessons for the smaller parties? “Don’t hate the devil so much that you fail to pay attention to your own god,” to paraphrase CS Lewis.
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