After 2024 or 2029, the ANC will be unable to form a government on its own — and that’s where the big test lies for the DA
You turn your back for a moment and the place goes wild. I went on holiday and the DA was running the coalition government in Joburg. I come back and the ANC is. You can be certain that whatever slight progress mayor Mpho Phalatse had been making in our economic hub, it will now end.
Experience tells us a government of the ANC, the Patriotic Alliance (PA), COPE and whatever other odds and sods, supported by the EFF, and a R77bn budget make for just one outcome — and it won’t be pretty...
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