The PA says its base is coloured people, while for FF Plus it’s white Afrikaners. According to political leaders and analysts, identity politics have won these elections.
JOHANNESBURG - The Patriotic Alliance and Freedom Front Plus say they are unapologetic for engaging in race-based identity politics to get votes.According to political leaders and analysts, identity politics have won these elections.The Umkhonto weSizwe Party with Zulu people, PA with coloureds, FF Plus with Afrikaners, and the Democratic Alliance with white people.
The PA’s head of strategy, Charles Cilliers, said the party was born out of a need for an organisation that would put the interests of coloured people first. "From the outset, those of us that started the PA were aware that coloured nationalism was brewing, but it hadn’t really exploded or taken form and that somebody was going to come into that. You see it with the Cape Coloured Congress - they also want to tap into that coloured frustration and nationalism.""We don’t deny that the majority of our voter base are Afrikaners, that we know, but we are a political party of merit. We have our principles and we have had them all the time.
Both parties said while they wanted to keep their respective bases, they also wanted to grow beyond them.
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