Martin Williams
A coalition committed to removing the ANC from power should not have embraced one of their closest allies.
Arguments over ActionSA’s role in the ousting of Joburg’s Democratic Alliance (DA) mayor Dr Mpho Phalatse are a sideshow. While it is true that ActionSA tried to have an Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) councillor as a candidate for the speaker position, this was not the reason for the governing coalition’s collapse. Despite the verbal aggression, ActionSA voted with the coalition at all important times. The IFP-for-speaker ploy provided ActionSA and the Patriotic Alliance (PA) with ammunition to – unjustly in my view – describe the DA as arrogant for declining to accept the suggestion. However, the real deal was between...
