How the DA lost the black vote

In 2014, the Democratic Alliance made great strides in garnering the black vote. Fast-forward to 2019 and they lost a lot of that very same support and even some of the white vote.

How did a party that seemed to have a strategy that was sound and seen as pioneering in 2014 fall so short in 2019? In 2009 and 2014, so determined was I that I would not be party to bringing to power Jacob Zuma’s ANC that I adopted the DA as my new political home. There it was, a party with an educated, liberal woman at its helm, surrounded by a younger African woman in the form of Lindiwe Mazibuko and an older, more experienced woman, in aunty Patricia de Lille.

But it was in their inaction in terms of all things race-related that the DA could never fully enjoy my vote. The same DA includes Helen Zille, who conducts herself as she pleases with very little consequences in the event she may offend the same voters the party seeks to attract.

Oh please. They have never had the black vote. A very small %. Their base are all minorities. The muppet Maimane needs to remember that.

A racist 'non-racist' rant. This garbage is the same as the crap Team Mmusi has been spouting. But only to a point. It's time for HermanMashaba to step up. Maimane failed dismally on all counts and blaming his failure on 'conservative whites' proves how weak he really is.

What the hell is a black vote? Please don't disrespect us.

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