Patriotic Alliance

And I can give you just a quick picture.

If you look at the parties around us, you take the Patriotic Alliance, that is a party for colored nationalism.

You look at parties like the MK party, Zulu nationalism, the IFP, Zulu nationalism.

All of these tribal effects make the parties grow faster.

in South African center politics.

We have a growing fringe of mainly ethno-nationalist parties, single issue parties of whether it be the Freedom Front Plus or Patriotic Alliance, the MK, National Colored Congress.

Those are largely identity-based parties.

And you have the ANC and the DA straggling either side of a center, centrist policies.

I think we'll have to think about whether or not that undermines or curtails freedom of expression reasonably or unreasonably.

I think one of the more concerning examples we have is the Patriotic Alliance saying that they were going to ban media from their various rallies, etc.

And that, I think, is a far more clear and unacceptable invasion or limitation on the right to freedom of expression.

William Bird, he's the director of Moxie Africa.

When you look at the eight metropolitan regions in South Africa, Johannesburg is standalone with the most number of parties which currently control wards.

You have the D.A., the ANC, Aljamain, LaNasia, the Patriotic Alliance, who control a number of wards, and then Carter Freedom Party.

This is more than any other metropolitan area in the country.

We contrast that with Cape Town.

ANC sitting at 23%.

We've got MK sitting at 10% in Joburg, or actually 11, 10.9. And we've got the EFF sitting at 10.4. Action SA at 10.3. We've got the Patriotic Alliance at 3.5. Borsa at 2.4, although that's only one input.

I think that was Ipsos.

And the Freedom Front sitting at 2%.

So below 40 will be a slight disappointment.

for let's say the short term but in the long term for the da to be the biggest party in joburg is a major achievement they have dethroned the anc in joburg and joburg was once the jewel in the anc crown so that would leave the da with a massive mountain to climb even if they got action sa as coalition partners that would still only take them to 43 percent And then they would need 7% from somewhere.

Patriotic Alliance, that doesn't look likely.

Borsa, maybe.

I mean, in order for him to, if not say sorry, but send the message that this is not going to happen again, is there time to make a complaint under the Electoral Code of Conduct? Does the IEC...

So what needs to be done in order for media to be welcomed, even if with suspicion at the next time there's a patriotic alliance rally?

Well, I don't think just yet one needs to go to the IEC to complain because it's a warning sign, a statement's a warning sign.

The publicity that he's got at the moment, he may actually, ironically enough, be enjoying it.

You know, 100%.

So...

You know, in many ways, if people have forgotten about the PA, he's brought the PA under the spotlight to get some attention.

And it's good in a way that it's negative attention, but, you know, it's good for other political parties to know that you can't say that.