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The DA’s Kempton Park moment with a shock eight-vote win in Evaton
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The DA’s Kempton Park moment with a shock eight-vote win in Evaton

African National Congress (ANC), Corruption, Democratic Alliance, Elections, Evaton, Gauteng, South African Politics

The DA’s Kempton Park moment with a shock eight-vote win in Evaton

From the shock of Wakkerstroom in 1924 to the DA’s razor-thin eight-vote victory in a 98% black township nearly a century later, South Africa’s by-elections have often signalled shifts in the political weather long before the storm arrives, writes Tony Leon. Just over a century ago, on 17 June 1924, the National Party won its first [...]

By Tony Leon|2026-06-03T09:34:15+00:00June 3rd, 2026|African National Congress (ANC), Corruption, Democratic Alliance, Elections, Evaton, Gauteng, South African Politics|0 Comments

Tone-deaf ANC could be punished at the polls… just like NP was in 1981
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Tone-deaf ANC could be punished at the polls… just like NP was in 1981

African National Congress (ANC), Corruption, Cyril Ramaphosa, Gauteng, Gwede Mantashe, SONA, South African Politics, water crisis

Tone-deaf ANC could be punished at the polls… just like NP was in 1981

Just as a National Party minister’s comment about pensioners surviving on R20 a month helped trigger the party’s 1981 electoral decline, today’s ANC leaders are making similarly tone-deaf remarks – from booking hotel baths during water shortages to claiming hospital patients choose to sleep on floors. This could prove electorally disastrous for a party now [...]