Tshabadira Tambaii (MBA)

This is very educational. Thank you, Helen, for spelling it out. Political parties may share commitments to fighting corruption and improving service delivery, but they differ in their political and ideological orientations. Even among parties that are broadly pro-capitalist or pro-socialist, there are important variations in approach and degree. For example, although the gap between the ANC’s and DA’s economic policies has narrowed over the years, significant differences remain. That is why we must look beyond claims that Cape Town is the “best-run metro.” Its development model is entrenching gentrification and reproducing apartheid-era patterns of spatial development. Emfuleni will remain marked by informal settlements, while in Cape Town many poor people are expected to work in the city and then return to Mfuleni, shut out of the places where wealth and opportunity are concentrated.