So vacate the DA hellhole
Dear Hansie Smit,
I am a Gautenger. Having read your article “DA, take a post-election chill pill” (August 12), I decided to add my thoughts.
You refer to Cape Town, its inhabitants and the Democratic Alliance as being bunch of racist slackers, which I must assume includes yourself, being a resident there too. (Maybe you should have voted for the Nationalist Party. I note they lost their one seat because they didn’t get your vote.)
If Cape Town and the DA are a bunch of slackers who hardly do any work, I guess this means the rest of the ANC-held metros, prior to the elections, didn’t do anything at all.
Never mind that you failed to raise the fact that the ANC has done sweet f-all for two decades and Gauteng looks like the rubbish dump of the planet. You fail to note that the ANC, an antiracist organisation, has become one of the most racist parties in South Africa.
Maybe you haven’t noticed that thieves, liars, fraudsters, nepotists, cronies, morons and lazy slackers have been housed under ANC governance in the rest of the country for the past 17 years.
The ANC of today is by no means the ANC of Nelson Mandela. In fact, it is an insult to his legacy. But the ANC and its current leaders continue to fail to understand that, and I don’t see any chance of change to their arrogant attitude in the near future. In the light of this, I don’t know who you expected residents of Cape Town to vote for, but I would like to hear. The DA has achieved more in the Western Cape and Cape Town in the past 10 years than the ANC has achieved across the whole country in 22.
Maybe you are just an anticapital- ist, anti-order, anti-Establishment rebel with an unknown cause, seeking to break out of the order created by the DA. If so, please move to any other province and enjoy the crap we have to endure on a daily basis.
It is said that money makes the world go round, something the DA seems to understand.
If you don’t look after your socalled white racists, those who have made their homes in Cape Town and the Western Cape, and give them a good reason to invest and pay taxes and bring in their tourism money, there won’t be any money or jobs to improve the lot of the poor and downtrodden.
So at least grant the DA their place in the sun for a while. Lambast them if Cape Town and the Western Cape start to look like Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal. —