Coalition with the party is a corrupt idea, and will lead to bad governance
Opposition parties’ plans to go into coalition with the ANC if — or when — it loses its absolute majority in 2024 must be abandoned. Any attempt to push the ANC towards competent governance from within a coalition will just see the smaller partners being subsumed by a more experienced, more dogmatic and less reasonable ANC.
Both are unacceptable. SA deserves a government that is both non-corrupt and ideologically aligned with realistic economics, freedom and accountable democracy. No part of the ANC has demonstrated a commitment to all those requirements. The ANC’s infighting is not over the fate of SA. It is for positions of power and wealth. For tenders and jobs. Not over saving this country.
Politics is constantly changing, and all politicians should be constantly reviewing their options of making SA a better place. A coalition with the ANC would not work now, but things can change. Ironically, those attacking the DA now for a hypothetical scenario are playing more into the ANC’s plan than the DA ever has.
Ganging up and keeping the ANC out of power is the exact strategy smaller parties need to employ in municipal coalition governments. There is no point in ousting the ANC from government if it is going to be invited back into government via a coalition. And there is no point being in a coalition with the ANC when it is guaranteed to ride roughshod over any attempt to govern properly, and to infect the other coalition partners with its bad practices.
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