DA wants provinces to have power to hold referendums

Yes voters celebrate as the result of the Irish referendum on the 8th amendment is declared at Dublin Castle on May 26 2018. Picture: CHARLES MCQUILLAN/GETTY IMAGES

SA does not have a tradition of using referendums to test the views of the electorate on specific issues though other countries such as Switzerland and Italy make frequent use of this mechanism. “In its current form, the Referendums Act only allows for the president to call a referendum and does not provide for a premier to call for a referendum in a province,” Mazzone said.

She believed that the governing ANC government had not used referendums to test the views of the electorate “as it is slightly afraid of the people. The more you centralise power the more you take away the voice from the average South African. That is what we need to stop happening. As South Africans we need to stand very firm and we need to make our voices very loud. Sometimes these referendums are going to be difficult for the government to handle”.

Because they want to issue a referendum to white Capetonians who will say Cape Town must be a country independent of South Africa. I-DA izenza ongqesta! 😂😂😂

Be careful what you wish for.

HajraOmarjee Let them win. National elections and then amend current laws.

So many things the DA wants that will never happen.

The DA would also like to take us back to apartheid, but it's not going to happen.

So many bitcon traders on Twitter are trickster AmeliaMaveric thank you for opening my eyes to their ways now I’m pretty sure I’ll be able to help others

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