EUSEBIUS MCKAISER | Intractable coalition talks reveal our odious political culture
SA parties have shown their true colours, caring more about amassing power than the needs of voters and citizens
It is fascinating watching coalition talks unfold, after the local government election results left us with 66 hung municipalities. What and how parties negotiate to form coalitions to govern municipalities in which no one got an outright majority reveal a lot about the political DNA of each party, and a lot about our political culture more generally. It is amazing what unnecessary strategic and tactical errors are being made. These errors are avoidable but are fuelled by our odious political culture, in which the needs of voters and citizens are rendered inferior to the egomania of way too many South African politicians. ..
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