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Cosatu/DA coalition: great idea, but not too realistic

Posted by Ian Ollis on Saturday, May 28, 2011,

There are many good reasons why the DA and Cosatu should find themselves at the same table and work together for the benefit of South Africa. And yet, there are almost as many reasons why such coalition will not work.

It has been mooted before that there would be distinct advantages to a proposed governing coalition between the Democratic Alliance and the Congress of SA Trade Unions to seize power from the ANC, provide an alternative government and force ...


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Thuggish ANCYL gets just deserts in Cape poll

Posted by Ian Ollis on Thursday, June 3, 2010,
Article by Rhoda Kadalie, 1 June 2010 - Business Day

JULIUS Malema’s African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) is proof that political power ought not to be given to mindless thugs. And the league’s attempts to scupper Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Helen Zille’s meeting in Gugulethu on Monday last week, ahead of by-elections, was one of the surest signs yet that should the ruling party face the prospect of defeat at the polls, it will resort to violence.

If generalising from the le...

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