This is one of the best pieces of analysis on the DA I have read in a long time. It is remarkable that they seem to not understand the strategic flaws you have pointed out.
The DA had to play the 3-D poker with the cards it was dealt by the electorate, not the cards it would have liked. While Ramaphosa was, to mix metaphors, prepared to "play ball" to a limited extent, Lesufi had no compunction in reneging on the GNU Agreement and playing hardball.
Further, the ANC is highly adept — it seems to be their only skill, one they learned from the KGB — at playing the racecard and bellpontinging the narrative.
In Ramaphosa's defence, the biggest contestation in SA is *within* the ANC, but he was able to carry it with him, with some factions kicking and screaming (the until now ever-loyal SACP is about to contest elections independently) into a centrist GNU; had the ANC ganged up with EFF & MK …
This is one of the best pieces of analysis on the DA I have read in a long time. It is remarkable that they seem to not understand the strategic flaws you have pointed out.
Excellent. Excellent. Excellent. Thank you.
The DA had to play the 3-D poker with the cards it was dealt by the electorate, not the cards it would have liked. While Ramaphosa was, to mix metaphors, prepared to "play ball" to a limited extent, Lesufi had no compunction in reneging on the GNU Agreement and playing hardball.
Further, the ANC is highly adept — it seems to be their only skill, one they learned from the KGB — at playing the racecard and bellpontinging the narrative.
In Ramaphosa's defence, the biggest contestation in SA is *within* the ANC, but he was able to carry it with him, with some factions kicking and screaming (the until now ever-loyal SACP is about to contest elections independently) into a centrist GNU; had the ANC ganged up with EFF & MK …