BN Edge | GHL: coalitions, Cape Town and the DA's road to 2029 — or earlier

2029 being such an important next milestone. And we did discuss perhaps it's even sooner than that. What is the path to victory in 2029 look like from here? Yeah, that's a great question. We've started on that path. And that's why I said at the results center last week: this is a great platform now for 2029, and our preparations start immediately because the core insight is you cannot become.

A party that is larger than the ANC based purely on our current electorate. We had to grow our electorate with particularly with people who have never voted for the DA before, predominantly black South Africans, and I assume that many of them, most of them, are former ANC supporters who, either in the last election or at some point over the last decade or decade and a half, have become totally alienated.

From that party. And I don't think that that trend is reversing. And now that we are in basically every township community in the country, at least a 10% party, and in many cases, much, much more than that. In some parts of Cape Town, here, 30%, 40% in township wards. And then I just want to put a pin in this for a second and say this is another great lesson to all of those people who constantly drone on about the DNA.

Online, that your online bubble is not the real world. We have learned that a lesson again in this election. Just because you like to, well, not you, Alec, but someone likes to drone on social media about how the DA doesn't serve everyone equally. Well, actually, those voters are responding to the efforts that the DA is making to actually improve services, improve dignity, improve their lives, deliver a growing economy.

Economy responding by supporting the DA. And as I say, we are now the third largest party among black voters in South Africa after the ANC and MK. So this is an extraordinary shift, extraordinary, probably the biggest shift in these election results. And that bodes extremely well for our future ambitions. That means that we can break through this glass ceiling that we've had in the past and we can.