Why cant the DA capitalise on a broken ANC?
In any other democracy, a corrupt and incompetent government would present a golden opportunity to the opposition. Somehow, this is not happening in SA. Instead, analysts are saying that the DA will lose ground in the October local government elections, in spite of having shown that it can be capable and efficient when given a chance to run things BL PREMIUM  Political power in a democracy is essentially a numbers game. And its one that may come to haunt SAs official opposition. In the aftermath of the DAs dismal national electoral performance in 2019  where the partys support dropped from a high of 33.5% in the 2016 local government election to 20.7%  it chose a surprising path: to abandon its growth strategy in favour of winning back the minority groups it feared it had lost. Politically, it made no sense, not least because those groups, numerically, could make no difference to its electoral performance, at least not in the by-elections that have taken place since then...