DA’s election tactics: Fueling fear or fostering unity?

The racially tone-deaf fashion of the DA has seen the party struggle to hold on to the likes of Lindiwe Mazibuko and Mmusi Maimane.

The shorter the campaign, the lower the chances of SA’s deep underlying racial and ethnic divisions bubbling to the surface. John Steenhuisen, not totally out of character with the party he leads, decided to have a go at “smaller opposition parties” campaigning against his party, the “bigger” opposition party. His rationale?The smaller parties are splitting the opposition vote and thus making it easier for the ruling party to stay in power. And that would have made sense only if he had stopped there.

Maybe it is not clear to Steenhuisen, the biggest fear of the DA’s strongest voting base in the Western Cape is land expropriation without compensation, which has never been Rise Mzansi’s election campaign cornerstone. Not so long ago, Julius Malema was told not to campaign in KZN but rather stay in Limpopo. It is not uncommon for people in North West province to tell people from Limpopo or Gauteng who are in leadership positions in that province “to go back home”.

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