White Parties On Course To Win South Africa's Big Cities After Municipal Elections

<iframe class=youtube src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4EjyJcCDGag" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br><a rel=ugc href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EjyJcCDGag?si=NY6ebSb4M2JCBs7k">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EjyJcCDGag?si=NY6ebSb4M2JCBs7k</a><br><br>Many stakeholders, including <b>Freedom Front Plus leader Corne Mulder, have called for a coalition between the DA, ActionSA, and the Freedom Front Plus in Gauteng province metropolitan areas.</b><br><br><b>Gauteng is South Africa's richest province.</b> <br><br>The latest local government election <b>results showed that these three parties should be able to form coalitions in Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni (home to OR Tambo, Africa's busiest airport) and Tshwane (Pretoria).</b><br><br>Mulder said that such a coalition makes sense as it will remove the African National Congress (ANC) from power in these cities. “We need less ANC in government.”<br><br><b>“People feel very strongly about the ANC and the role they have played in the last 30 years to bring local government to disarray.”</b><br><br><b>“I would like to see the ANC out of local government and out of the South African government entirely.”</b><br><br><b>He cited Tshwane (capital city, Pretoria), where, based on the results, they can form a very stable coalition</b> between the Democratic Alliance, ActionSA, and the Freedom Front Plus.<br><br>“It will depend on the parties if they are prepared to cooperate. We are prepared to cooperate,” he said.<br><br><b>“We have been in coalition with some of these parties in the past, and I think we will see more stable coalitions because we can form them with fewer parties.”</b><br><br>Mulder said that in the past, they had a problem with too many political parties in coalitions, including very small, one-person parties.<br><br>This, in turn, created instability. “We can form more stable coalitions, which is in the best interest of the electorate,” he said.<br><br>Hermann Pretorius, head of strategic communications at the South African Institute of Race Relations, shared this view.<br><br>He said that <b>ActionSA has changed the game in the Gauteng metros, including leapfrogging the ANC in Tshwane and coming close in Johannesburg.</b><br><br>“The party finally seems to have found an identity after six years. It now has the opportunity to distinguish itself more confidently from both the DA and ANC,” he said.<br><br>He said that <b>the moment calls for a comprehensive deal between the Democratic Alliance and ActionSA.</b><br><br>“Representatives of neither party will like the idea. Their grievances may be entirely valid, but voters will want seriousness and service,” he said.<br><br>“This won’t be easy. Not even close. But failing to grasp the moment will be the greater political failure.”<br><br>“The DA cannot afford to miss its chance to lead a new politics by clinging to the old politics defined by the ANC for one election cycle too long.”<br><br>Pretorius is correct that it would not be an easy task. <b>ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba said that his mission was to take support away from the DA and ANC.</b><br><br>“There are two political parties, the ANC and the DA, where we are on a mission to put them in the dustbin,” he said.<br><br><b>“The ANC is a corrupt organisation funded by DA funders. The DA is a racist organisation. It does not care about poor people,” he said.</b><br><br><b>DA and VF+ enjoy large support from white voters.</b>