Avid reader, especially SA fiction. I write book reviews, now and again. Another major hobby is birding which gets me into our beautiful outdoors.
Cape Town, South Africa
Joined April 2009
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Now that the elections are over, will the media - all media- talk about money and politics? How much was Helen Zille's campaign? This will be declared later, but one of the clips mentioned a figure of R150m. The MKP funders also need to be disclosed....
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The irony is through the roof!
Instead of uniting black voters under an established revolutionary movement, Jacob Zuma went and registered party number 620, and now sits in front of cameras complaining that black people are too divided. You can't create party #620 to divide the vote and then lecture the country on unity!
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Comment: No. The AGOA decision was the work of an Imperial President who has had his target trained on South Africa more than 20 times since he took office because of powerful people whispering into his ears.
The loss of South Africa’s AGOA privileges is more symbolic than material and arises entirely from the refusal of the South African government to heed US concerns on reciprocity and national security.
thecommonsense.co.za/Economi…
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Despite all the money, fancy marketing and hype, Helen Zille actually underperformed expectations in Johannesburg, securing 35% compared to projections of 41–42%.
I think the DA is generally satisfied with the election results, but I suspect they were hoping for more.
Nationally, they're sitting at around 24%, below the 2016 result under Mmusi Maimane and well short of the 29% they were reportedly targeting.
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Voters have have realized that its not what they thought it was.
A Party that always changes its SG after every 6 months.
No stability there.
No accountability regarding the missing millions.
Voters are not stupid
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We’ve been trying to explain this since before elections (DA voters actually go out and vote) but people don’t want to listen
