Post by cjm on Aug 21, 2016 10:25:29 GMT
Local government elections show wit gevaar politics have failed
Posted 16 August 2016 Written by John Kane-Berman
More blacks voted for the Democratic Alliance than did whites, and in a metropolitan area with just a 15% white population - Nelson Mandela Bay - a white mayor in the form of Athol Trollip is about to take office. The ANC's attempt at racial mobilisation has failed, just as the National Party of old attempted to scare white voters with the "black threat". The ANC's troubles from here will likely multiply, showing how far of course the party of liberation has strayed. By John Kane-Berman.
The results of the nationwide municipal elections on 3rd August are a repudiation of all those seeking to polarise South Africa along racial lines. In the first place, the great majority of whites voted for a party with a black leader. This is a neat answer to all those academics and journalists who in the past couple of years have been cooking up a witch's brew they call "whiteness" that enables them to depict all white people as having racism baked into their DNA.
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