1. I can’t blame her. 2. Must be nice to have options. For most of us, this is all we have
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I am a Tshwane resident and I can confirm this is true. Also, I’m not an Action SA voter but I’d love for the good doctor to be my mayor.
Just to help those that want to spew fear and misinformation.
These are the parties that turned the fate of @CityTshwane around after 8 years of DA’s failure and mismanagement.
Facts matter.
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Is this the DA excellence I keep hearing so much about?
The racism is only going to get worse. Brace yourselves
Before Naspers South Africa CEO Phuthi Mahanyele was one of the country's best paid and most prominent tech executive's, she was leading Cyril Ramaphosa's investment giant and dating the CEO of MTN South Africa.
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1. The ‘one-party’ dominance was the will of the collective, not some utopian dictatorship
2. It’s called a democracy precisely because it is, by nature, competitive - that’s not some big revelation
3. If your politics isn’t right wing, then consider tweeting responsibly
Mokwena retweeted
5 years ago a two year old died in similar circumstances in Khayelitsha (The one with better services than Sandton), and the DA Mayor at the time offered the family tea and biscuits for the funeral.
Mokwena retweeted
Whatever else you say about the ANC as they face historic losses this election, let it be known that this particular mighty liberation party accepted the will of the people. Despite have the might of the state behind them they have repeatedly conceded their losses. This is sadly rare on our continent and should be appreciated.
"We thank the people of South Africa for coming out and exercising their sacrosanct right to vote. Our democracy can only get stronger from participatory democracy. The ANC is watching the results as they come in and will have a final communique once every vote has been counted. We are a party that listens and reflects. We will continue to process the message that voters are sending to us."
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The ANC failed at many things but letting our history be washed away is unforgivable. We survived state sponsored war in KZN to be told now the transition from apartheid and democratic era was an ‘ANC monopoly’.
The ANC is taking the liberation story down with it.
Mokwena retweeted
Goodness this is quite unfortunate a tweet. South Africans were exercising democracy when they voted for the ANC, just as they exercise it when they vote for other parties.
Those were the choices of millions of citizens. Describing them as a “monopoly” diminishes the agency of the electorate.
The language of an “old” South Africa departing and a “new” one emerging is also deeply uncomfortable in a country with our history, especially from you as a white man. Applied to the decline of a liberation movement’s electoral support, it carries racial undertones…the suggestion that the choices of a predominantly black electorate were something the country needed to outgrow before democracy could truly flourish.
Celebrate greater political competition, Dan. Demand accountability from the ANC and every other party. But democracy did not begin when the ANC lost its majority, and the ANC’s electoral decline should not be confused with South Africa’s liberation.
Our democracy belongs equally to those who vote ANC and those who don’t. Its legitimacy cannot depend on whose political preferences prevail.
Kana what do they say about liberal whites??
The old South Africa is gone. Yesterday's South Africa has departed. The defining factor of the first 32 years, ANC monopoly, is over. A new South Africa is emerging, with many parties wrestling over our future. Democracy is alive and well. Now we will see. To 2029, and beyond
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A 75 year old white woman is NOT a carrier of solutions to my problems as a black woman.
