The MultiParty Coalition Advocacy Group, an attempt to field a serious contender against the ANC in the next general election, is fracturing.
Gauteng and KwaZuluNatal may fall to opposition coalitions. The ANC is panicking.The unassuming KwaZulu-Natal town of Howick has a political importance that outweighs its modest stature. Developments in this sleepy Midlands town, as well as the bustling metropolises of Cape Town and Pretoria, are bellwethers as to how our future may unfold over the next critical decade. All three, at present, are controlled by the opposition DA and are, each in its way, critical inflection points.
In Pretoria, the administrative capital, there has been a three-month union campaign against attempts to cut its astronomical wage bill. Buses have been stoned, hundreds of millions of rands worth of service vehicles torched, and dozens of municipal employees assaulted. In Howick, a town that historically was no more than a blip on SA’s political consciousness became a place of national and international attention in last year’s municipal election. This was because the DA had won, albeit by a razor-thin majority, its first municipality from the ANC.
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