The black middle class are angry at their exclusion from mainstream economic activity.
Mmusi Maimane over the issue for fear of alienating their traditional, rather tribal, white voter base. Any mention of race, or redress, or race-based inequality, it seems, was to be banished – while asking those at the receiving end of racism to vote DA.
The ANC has never been able to sustain a strong appeal to higher-educated or higher-income voters. The DA has now fallen back dramatically in these areas, and the graphic makes it clear that the EFF hold more appeal to black middle class voters than the DA.
Among those who said they would vote, according to our survey results, 17% “don’t know” who they will vote for – even though many had previously overcome their unhappiness at the perceived “whiteness” of the DA:
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