A set of local results that may just have shown us our national future
The DA will never lead SA at national level, but Herman Mashaba might
07 November 2021 - 00:00
For goodness’ sake, whatever you do, on pain of, well, pain, don’t compare the results in this local government election with the last general election, in 2019. Compare them with the previous municipal poll in 2016. That way the performance of the DA last Monday looks much worse. It did 26.9% in 2016 and 21.8% on Monday. What a catastrophe...
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