[So how are the voters out there feeling today – especially the Whites?

White hopes in this country, generally, are riding on the Democratic Alliance. We are hoping the DA can be an effective counter-measure to the ANC. I wrote in my book in 2001, that I don’t think the DA will be able to stop the far left. I believe the Liberals (because that is what the DA are) will be defeated. Many White National Party supporters started supporting the DA.

But so far, the news for the DA does not look good. It looks as if the ANC is the big winner.

So how am I taking this? It does not even bother me one iota. I have been saying that we must prepare to lose. We must learn to think and plan for the day when everything is against us.

Were the elections rigged? Were there dirty tricks? Who knows. And does it even matter? The blacks are insane. The ANC is steadily mismanaging our infrastructure so that it is starting to collapse, and yet this does not rebound on ANC popularity.

The ANC has made lots of hints prior to the elections that it will seize more farmland, and it has made many promises of more socialism. This could have worked on our stupid electorate.

I don’t know if I mentioned this on my website, but some weeks ago, I was chatting to some friends and family and I remarked to them: Do you realise that the future of this country is going to be decided by the STUPID?! Yes. One friend of mine then remarked, “And being the stupid… they will make the stupid choice!” Exactly! So here you see the result of the stupid mind. And the ANC knows how to talk to the stupid.

In the end, I’m telling you, the stupid will wholeheartedly believe that putting us on the menu is going to be the best thing.

The more I watch so-called Democracy in Africa, the more I think this is the most evil thing that ever happened on this continent. Show me one African country which has prospered and followed a path of growth, logic and development after so-called “democracy”.

To those voters who voted for the DA who hoped that sanity would finally prevail in this country. Get used to it. We’re living in an insane continent of insane people. They will always make the stupidest choice. That’s why they’re the poorest bunch of losers on the planet.

But just because they are losers, does not mean I want to go down along with them. That’s why we must break away from these completely crazy people. Jan]

A rampant African National Congress, which has seen its support increase in the national and provincial polls every five years since 1994, was set to repeat the feat in this year’s local poll, sweeping the board in the majority of municipalities.

With voter turnout hovering about 49 percent and results not yet finalised, the ANC appeared to have increased its support from 2000, with concerns over lack of basic services, corruption, infighting and disaffection over cross-boundary municipalities, having little effect.

About 7.30pm the ANC’s national support stood at 67,05 percent. In 2002 it polled 60,69 percent.

‘The voters themselves have made their choice’
The ANC was expected to win at least five of the six metros, although Cape Town was too close to call at the time of going to press.

In all the provinces, bar KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape, the ANC left opposition parties standing.

By late on Thursday night in Gauteng, the ANC had 62,36 percent of the votes while the Democratic Alliance got 26,51 percent. The Inkatha Freedom Party was third at 1,95 percent, followed by the Freedom Front (1,87 percent) Independent Democrats (1,37 percent) and the Pan Africanist Congress (1,25 percent.)

According to Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa, parties and celebrations should begin now that the people have made it clear who they want.

“The voters themselves have made their choice and given their mandate to the party of their choice, all that waits to be done now is to party,” said a jubilant Shilowa during his visit to the provincial IEC operations centre at the Nasrec Centre in Johannesburg on Thursday.

The DA support, while substantially down from 2000 when it was still in happy matrimony with the NNP and Federal Alliance, was hovering about 15 percent on Thursday night.

This was higher than pollsters predicted and the 12,37 percent support received in recent national and provincial elections.

The DA was still hoping it would be the largest party in the Cape Metro.

DA leader Tony Leon, whose party fought a campaign urging voters not to split the opposition vote, on Thursday acknowledged that the electorate had ignored its call.

Noting that no party had a clear majority in a number of municipalities, he said: “The voters in their wisdom have dictated a situation where parties need to co-operate.”

The DA was ready to co-operate with other parties on a case-by-case basis in the interest of good government, Leon said.

“The DA believes that, where possible, opposition parties should form opposition-governed councils, since clearly that is what the opposition voters want.”

Leon said it was important now that the election was over, for the heat and animosities of the campaigning to be put aside “in the interest of the ratepayers and the good government of towns and cities”.

“We stand ready to co-operate, particularly with other opposition parties, to strengthen democracy in our country by building a stronger and more cohesive alternative to the ANC, and I would like to extend an invitation to their leaderships to consider this carefully, particularly since our respective voters share many joint interests.”

However, disgruntled former ANC members were able to make some inroads into the party’s support, particularly in the Southern Cape and the Karoo town of Beaufort-West.

The ANC won the Nelson Mandela metro municipality in the Eastern Cape with a total of 81 of the 120 ward seats, followed by the DA with 30, the ID 3 and the United Democratic Movement, Freedom Front Plus, African Christian Democratic Party, PAC, the United Independent Front and the Congress Movement of the Coloured People in South Africa, with a single seat each.

Among the biggest losers appeared to be the United Democratic Movement, which halved its support in the King Sabata Dalindyebo Municipality, which it lost to the ANC during the 2002 floor-crossing period.

The UDM received 24,5 percent compared to 50,4 percent in 2000, while the ANC mustered 72,4 percent.

Overall, the UDM’s support also appeared to have dropped, hovering about 1,3 percent nationally on Thursday night.

In KwaZulu-Natal, the IFP was waiting for its traditional rural vote to come in, before pronouncing on its fortunes. It was not clear whether the fledging Nadeco would affect this vote.

The IFP was ousted by the ANC in some KwaZulu-Natal municipalities, such as Dududum where the IFP received 45 percent, down from 61 percent in 2000 as opposed to 51 percent for the ANC this year.

The IFP was also thrashed heavily in Harding where it received 30,6 percent compared to 56% in 2000, while the ANC mustered 65,9 percent this year.

The ANC in the province said preliminary indications were that the ANC had comfortably retained eThekwini Metro by getting 73 wards, compared to 62 in 2000. The ANC also retained the uMgungundlovu and Sisonke Districts.

“Voters emphatically spoke by giving Ugu, iLembe and Amajuba Districts to the ANC which were won by the IFP in 2000. Over and above this strong mandate, they have also said the Umhlathuze municipality, Empangeni/Richards Bay, must be under ANC control.

In the Midlands, the municipality which includes Ladysmith has also been won by the ANC.

In a handful of municipalities in the Western Cape, including Beaufort West and Mossel Bay, the DA may have to choose whether to co-operate with controversial politician Truman Prince’s Independent Civic Organisation of South Africa (Icosa) or the ANC.

DA spokesperson Douglas Gibson said: “In my view we would not consider Mr Prince.”

This article was originally published on page 1 of The Star on March 03, 2006

Source: Independent Online (IOL)
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