New twists in coalition talks

As a potential negotiating partner, removed McConto West Cisware Party, the IFP, and the PA but the vice versa of that is that, or rather, let me say the other side of the coin that exists in such a combination is that what they risk doing is legitimizing the ANC as an opposition party. Why am I talking about this? I'm talking about this because the ANC and the outcomes of the 2016 local

Government elections had a policy that said that, in circumstances where the African National Congress is not the biggest party in a council, they should rather choose to go into opposition and be an effective opposition. Now, for the ANC, in some ways, this could be both a good outcome for them and a bad outcome for them. A good outcome for

Sense that for the ANC, this gives them the opportunity to really reform. It is very difficult for a party like the ANC, which has been mired in scandals of corruption, mismanagement, abuse of state resources. It is very difficult for real reform to happen in a party like the ANC, especially in a space like Johannesburg, if they're still in charge of the purse strings in one way or another. But the other reason this

Is a saving grace for the ANC is that in opposition, it gives them the opportunity to mend their relationship with the left. Parties such as the EFF, the MK Party, the SACP, these are important leftist formations that the African National Congress has come to depend on. And so, if the Democratic Alliance were to do that in Johannesburg, and then we go to Cétoane, and albeit more complicated.

There with Silas Brink, but say they are able, just the both of them, to work out an arrangement there. That gives them 122 seats, pardon me. 122 of the 108 seats needed to elect a mayor and to form government in Suane. That's a majority with just these two, an uncomplicated, clean arrangement. In the city of Ekurhuleni, DA ActionSA falls short.

Of the necessary figures. But if you sprinkle VF in that formation, you get 117 seats of the 113 needed to govern in that third of Gauteng's metros. Now, that's just one end of how this formula can work. And I'm obviously speaking about this on the basis of this photo that was taken, which I found to be very strange. Such a high-level meeting, I'm not even sure if members.