ANC pushing DA to the brink of a GNU walkout

The DA should forget about Tshwane and instead concentrate on making a better offer to voters in our big metros in 2026

29 September 2024 - 00:02

Tshwane, Pretoria, has been a place of considerable trauma for the DA, much of it self-inflicted. It won the mayoralty after local government elections in 2016 seemed to offer the possibility of a major swing to the political centre as the DA, long in control of Cape Town, took charge of big metro governments in Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth, and Pretoria...

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