CONFIRMED
A DEAL WITH
THE DEVIL
THE DEVIL
The DA plans to form a coalition under the ANC after the 2024 General Election.
Here are the facts:
16 August 2023
"DA willing to renounce ANC coalition talks IF moonshot pact gets majority in 2024"
⚠️ The Moonshot Pact can realistically only achieve 32% of the vote in 2024. And the DA knows this.
Leaked Audio:
"I'd rather make tough demands on Cyril Ramaphosa's ANC, and force to unite under them, and go into coalition with them"... "That should be our aim for the next election."
— Helen Zille
Chairman of the Federal Council of the DA
7 February 2023
“I do know that in the post-2024 environment, the DA will be at the heart of a new government in South Africa at the national level"
— John Steenhuisen, DA Leader
John Steenhuisen confirmed to Bloomberg that the DA will do "everything it can" to form a coalition with the ANC.
In this Bloomberg article from 7 February 2023, John Steenhuisen, provides the 3 most likely scenarios in the 2024 General Election:
1.
2.
3.
ANC
retains over 50%2.
ANC & EFF
coalition3.
ANC & DA
coalitionSteenhuisen added that the DA will do everything it can to prevent options 1 or 2.
“For me, the two nightmare scenarios for SA from an economic, business and social perspective, and a political perspective, are the ANC retaining a majority, or the ANC & EFF tying up." ... "We would do everything we can to prevent those two scenarios taking place.”
— John Steenhuisen, DA Leader
Helen Zille confirms that a DA+ANC coalition is the 'least bad option' if the DA does not win an outright majority.
YesCape have not been able to locate any source that suggests an outright majority win for the DA is a realistic possibility.
KykNet Insig, 27 February 2023
The DA's Chief of Communications
Leon SchReiber
April 2023 – Current
wrote a book called "Coalition Country" that deals about a possible ANC + DA coalition as early as 2019.
7 February 2023 — Bloomberg
Steenhuisen sees working with the ANC as a possible scenario
Should its support dip significantly below 50%, it would likely be forced into a partnership with either the business-friendly DA or the Economic Freedom Fighters, the third-largest party, which advocates the nationalization of mines and land.
23 November 2022 — IOL
DA ‘open to possibility of coalition with ANC’
The DA is open to forming a coalition with the ANC in Gauteng should possibilities for a coalition government open up, said the party’s Gauteng leader, Solly Msimanga.
28 February 2021 — TimesLive
'I'd work with Cyril, not David Mabuza': Steenhuisen
DA leader John Steenhuisen has opened the door to a possible coalition with the ANC should there be a stalemate in the 2024 elections - but only if President Cyril Ramaphosa is still its leader.
16 February 2023
"DA must keep EFF out of power, even if it means coalition with the ANC"
— Geordin Hill-Lewis
Mayor of the City of Cape Town
9 March 2022 — BizNews
In this interview, Zille has been planning to form a coalition under the ANC since 2014.
"The best case outcome, for bending the arc on the Bafana-Bafana model, is for the DA to do as well as we can in the 2024 election, because as the ANC falls below 50%, it is going to look around for coalition partners."
— Helen Zille
13 March 2022 — BizNews
Zille justifies DA + ANC coalition: 'DA will do anything to stop EFF + ANC coalition.
Helen Zille is not serious about the Multi-Party Coalition Charter.
13 March 2023
"Why are we battling so hard to put together these multi-party coalitions, that in most cases are a disaster?"
— Helen Zille
Chairman of the Federal Counsil of the DA
OPINION
23 November 2022
The idea of a DA/ANC Coalition
The DA makes their stance explicit. Written by Robert Duigan
27 January 2023
Herman Mashaba's Shocking Revelation
According to Mashaba, Helen Zille met with Paul Mashatile to divide municipalities between the DA and the ANC.
16 February 2023
Five reasons why DA must avoid ANC coalition in 2024
These past weeks have been dominated by insinuations and rumours of the DA considering a coalition with the ANC.