OPINION: November 1 will be a day on which the party whose messages promise the most will win. For the ANC it means getting voters out to vote, for parties such as the DA, CCC, GOOD and PA success could hinge on persuading “coloureds” to end their disengagement and to trust them with their ballots, writes Dennis Cruywagen.
De Lille has not gone into a political wilderness but has taken her cohort of political allies that once were marching with her and her former party, Independent Democrats, into her marriage with the DA into a new party, GOOD.
Of course, it cannot be said that this group, like any other group, will as a single, united column vote for a particular party. However, most votes from this group have not gone to the ANC, but to the DA, which under De Lille in 2016 maximized this support. Therefore, the fact that De Lille, or Aunty Patty as she is also called, will not wear a DA cap but a GOOD one, is something that the DA is likely to rue.
It’s difficult to see how the ANC will be able to overturn these negative perceptions. An unambiguous policy statement that “coloureds” are indeed African and commitment to follow and enforce this policy may help. DA national leader John Steenhuisen is on record as saying that his party needs to do much more in the City of Cape Town. He has said that DA will have to put a lot of money into infrastructure, laying out services in the next five years “so that everybody continues to receive basic services of a higher standard”.
The Freedom Front, ACDP and newly formed United Independent Movement are some of the other parties that will take part in Local Government Elections in this province.
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