ZILLE ESPOUSES TWO-PARTY SOUTH AFRICA

Democratic leader and Cape Town Premier, Helen Zille, has recently come out sponsoring the unification of all opposition parties on the modern South Africa's landscape of politics. The implication of this event, if it should happen, is effectively a two-party state. In a campaign to sell this idea to "The People", the Premier told her audience that

 

"The choice is between the populists, who will drive South Africa into the abyss of absolute poverty, or the constitutionalists, who must rise to the challenge of implementing a plan that gives everyone a chance of belonging, of working to improve their own lives, and contributing to society."
 

It is a rather belated attempt at redesigning our political edifice, and its effect is yet to be felt. A rather belated attempt, because Patricia De Lille, now mayor of our Executive Capital, made the same plea some few years ago. The result, the Independent Democrats submitting to DA's political way of thinking, like the New National Party did. The NNP joined the African National Congress in 2005.

Anyhow, good think the idea has gathered some convincing momentum. It's an idea "whose time has come". Do you like the idea or not?