The party focused on campaigning against the DA in a bid to win over more conservative Afrikaans voters
Peter Marais at a Freedom Front Plus briefing in Cape Town.Picture: ANDISWA MAKINANA
Parties such as the Congress of the People, Agang, the African People’s Convention and the Pan Africanist Congress were annihilated at Wednesday’s polls. This while new parties such as Good and the African Transformation Movement were set to make their way to parliament. But the most extraordinary tale coming from the smaller parties was the growth of the FF Plus, which in the previous elections won only four seats.
By Thursday afternoon, the FF Plus had already doubled its 2014 support in the Western Cape, Northern Cape and Mpumalanga, while growing its support in North West. James Selfe, DA federal executive chairman, said that if a party wanted to become one for all South Africans “you have to take positions that are inclusive of all South Africans”.
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