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In very simple terms, the DA needs either the ANC or ActionSA. On the other hand, the ANC & ActionSA do not need the DA.
There are 270 seats in Johannesburg.
Given Herman Mashaba’s current attitude and demands, there are essentially two coalition options on the table:
Option 1:
ANC (63) + ActionSA (43) + EFF (17) + MK (15) = 138 seats
Option 2:
DA (91) + ANC (63) = 154 seats
Both coalitions would have a majority, but in my opinion, the ANC is the real kingmaker in Johannesburg at this point.
Same with Tshwane.
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The current UK prime minister was not directly elected by the people, Voters do not directly elect who rules. They elect a party, who then choose a leader if they have a majority. 34% is a minority, as opposed the will of the 66% who did not vote for the DA.
While Joburgers didn't directly elect mayors, they did make their choice based on mayoral candidates punted by the parties. For Action SA to now propose those candidates step aside isn't in keeping with the spirit of respecting the will of the people.
34.79% of voting Joburgers chose DA with Helen Zille as their mayor. 16.27% chose Action SA and Herman Mashaba.
Putting forwards someone else entirely from either of those parties is disingenuous.
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Actually going in the right direction, it was only a few years ago that it was out of touch & outdated so the direction its going in esp with the clothing is deliberate
M&S need to significantly raise their prices. Their brand is slowly going down the drain with the new demographics that have discovered it
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I wrote this after Trump won, many in 2016 thought Trump's election victory was a temporary glitch in the matrix. Deep seated cultural resentment,& far right elitism,would go on to define the last decade of political discourse, becoming a central battleground of the culture wars.
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I remember the drought of 91 & resulting water crisis which almost shut down Bulawayo, leading to the Matabeleland Zambezi Water Trust being formed, 35 years later, its still all talk & no action meanwhile costs keep skyrocketing.
Whilst we applaud further construction work being done on Gwaai Shangani dam it only becomes relevant to the @CityofBulawayo when we know when and how the 252 km pipeline to from the dam to Bulawayo will be constructed.
Zinwa have advised this will cost half a billion dollars and there has been no indication from government how this will be funded or how long this will take.
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X posts are like jokes, having to explain what it means implies you weren't smart enough to get it on your own the first time.
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With such tactics, you would think they easily won the war!!!!
In 1976, 84 Rhodesian soldiers raided a camp of 5,000 in mozambique and came back without losing a single man. operation Eland. one of the most asymmetric raids of the 20th century and barely taught anywhere outside military circles.
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Be careful, next it will be on the market as an old Chinese fermented drink with health benefits.
Shanghai, meet Pfuko. Pfuko, meet Shanghai. Visitors to the Zimbabwe Pavilion at #CIIE took one sip of Maheu — tangy, creamy, unmistakably Zimbabwean — and suddenly the queue was longer than the trade talks. #ZimbabweDay
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Whether the issue is private schools or restaurants, vevhu vakaita mari become gatekeepers, & adopt the same exclusionary attitudes as the Rhodesians had, coz they mistake proximity to whiteness for personal superiority. The irony lost, is this elitism is just anti blackness.
The subtle message with racial undertones here is that white leadership is good and black leaders are corrupt, this is anti blackness in the guise of political analysis.
5, This is because of the factionalised & corrupt character of the Gauteng ANC. If they are the lead ANC faction in the relationship, there will be no prospect for Helen to clean out the corruption in JHB, build a competent municipal civil service and deliver on service delivery.
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Djangu retweeted
I’m literally putting Zim on the map every time I leave my house and perform because over the last decade 99.5% of all the Europeans I met here had never heard of it or met anyone from there before they met me. Boots on the ground ambassador work 😂
As soon as people can afford to live in low density suburbs, send their kids to private schools, a generational cultural switch flip occurs. Parents distance their kids from the areas that raised them & Kids grow up thinking the ghetto is a distant, foreign place to be avoided.
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You guys act as if generational wealth,& private schools go back centurie, Zimbabwe's urban class divide is young, 45 years ago your parents lived & grew up in the ghettos. classism & elitism isn't just snobbery, it's people who grew up visiting gogo kughetto denying their roots.
It’s not even about classism it’s about security concerns like let’s not pretend most of that crowd aren’t from the ghetto he’s a zimdancehall artist if the ghetto is soo safe and kumbaya let’s all go live there ☺️
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The contradiction of Zim classism is the so called elite look down on ghetto youths as "rowdy," unrefined,but forget ghetto youths have always driven our cultural identity.
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We took land from the “whites” yes and we celebrated. But those whites were Zimbabweans and they became Zimbabweans the moment they were given a Zimbabwean ID. They were citizens, like us. And once this government realised it could take land from citizens - nothing could stop them from doing that to “us”
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