Election Alignment: ANC-EFF coalition pact for Gauteng government is a given

The people of SA do not need to fear any coalition scenario. All coalition scenarios will have both advantages and disadvantages. The ANC/DA coalition is more desirable at Gauteng provincial level even though it looks ulikely at face value. The DA knows how to run cities but have no deeper connection with the sprowling township massea and realities. The ANC is still suported by many township masses and therefore ANC/DA coalition will be more beneficial to everyone in Gauteng. The ANC/EFF coalition is likely at national level. The two parties share foreign policy outlook, BRICS or Middle East and not far from each other on many other national policy elements. So different coalition scenarios are possible and there is no need to fear any.

Two words for this. Oink, Oink!

Frightening. Not all of us are fortunate enough to move elsewhere.

And that'll be the end of Gauteng. Blue light brigades everywhere, policing collapse and plunder with impunity. This is the way.

Lesufi’s ANC leadership will likely be dominated by the EFF’s Malema. Bumpy days ahead if this happens!

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Lesufi is already a populist wastrel and braggard, who has done nothing to reverse the decline of Gauteng as an economic hub or to provide the kind of leadership that attracts actual, real investment into the province. That's too much like hard work, requiring real decision-making as opposed to making up jobs through kitskonstabel projects. Can the EFF actually be any worse? Absolutely, but as long as Lesufi is in power in Gauteng, we're stuffed anyway. I honestly hope and pray that we get a non-ANC coalition after the elections. Not only does Gauteng need it, the whole of South Africa needs it. Desperately, because without Gauteng, the rest of the country goes down the tubes too.

I don't see this being a given at all, I can foresee an all out revolt within the ranks of the Gauteng ANC, should this be given the green light. What is more likely to happen, is the start of some sort of power struggle, with what direction the ANC is to go.

Panyaza Lesufi is arguably the most hard working, effective, party member the EFF have on their books right now. I have to take my hat off to the EFF - they are playing him like a fiddle (pun intended)

I live in Cape Town and can envision thousands of Gautengers flooding the Western Cape claming political asylum and/or refugee status.

We only have ourselves to blame if we return the ANC to power. Those who vote for the ANC and EFF are the ones most affected by what follows , if only they knew

Potential voters of the ANC/EFF coalition need to vote with their heads, not their traditions, The ANC has stolen the children’s future, this coalition will be turbocharged into raping the country’s coffers once again. Heaven help the people who believe this is a winning combination!

Reinforces GP as Gangsters Paradise

Johannesburg has become a total mess thanks to the ANC and EFF. Everything is unkempt, broken and proper maintenance of what still remains is a joke. Meritocracy is also an unknown word. The Mayor is a very well paid puppet. Wm Nicol was renamed, in haste, almost overnight, and at ratepayer cost, against the wishes of the people who reside in the area. All the ANC and the EFF want is power and money, money, money, preferably in their own pockets. They know nothing about running a city and providing good services for their ratepayers. We need a properly run city led by professional people who know what they are doing- like Cape Town. wishes of the people that live therepuppet

Well I hope someone has been granted the tender for the troughs because they are going to need to be huge.

Some interesting background regarding the renaming of the Nicolway Precinct (photo). Nicolway was acquired by Akani Properties (BEE firm with R4BN AUM) @ R1 billion for the Municipal Employees Pension Fund (MEPF), its client. In other words, Worker's pension fund money was funneled to a BEE firm; and then used to purchase an upmarket mall in a formerly white area, so ANC politicians could have a photo op at a ceremony renaming it after an ANC politician?

Effectively Gauteng would be run by the EFF and its ANC proxies with Mashitile and Lesufi firmly in the tent. How the financial world will react remains to be seen I suspect that there might be a similar reaction to that when Jacob Zuma had to hastily withdraw his appointment of weekend special Des van Rooyen as finance minister.

A non- thinking electorate if it goes this way!

Vote for the party which focuses on: - Law and order; and - Service delivery The rest is dangerous noise.

Well... Zimbabwe here we go. More people emigrating .. brain drain capital flight etc, etc. Totally depressing. Let's all move the the WC province and declare independence

Well... Zimbabwe here we go. More people emigrating .. brain drain capital flight etc, etc. Totally depressing. Let's all move the the WC province and declare independence

Interesting. Could it be that Malema has been playing a long game?

With the ANC and the EFF, being the two racist parties, drawing the most votes, says it all.

Predictions and polls are not guaranteed: a very misleading headline.

The EFF will show the ANC how to plunder banks (VBS example) and Malema will gobble Lesufi up for breakfast and swallow Ramaphosa in a couple of gulps later. Then it's a cut-and-dried highway to hell for Gauteng and possibly the rest of SA with only the Western Cape surviving. If the ANC wants any chance of survival it must form a coalition with the DA and be prepared to take lessons in good governance. Then SA will prosper.

The ANC learnt a lot from the Nationalist Party - keep the electorate ignorant! With a proportional electoral system and vote buying grants, it is very unlikely that we will NOT have a sensible like-minded coalition ruling for the people of South Africa! The tax base will shrink further with high earner immigration, the government budget will balloon with further promises of larger grants & further bloated government, employment will rise and infrastructure will further decay! Sadly a large majority of the electorate will not know that they are voting for policies to continue to keep them ignorant and to perpetuate the poverty in SA. SHOW THE ANCE & EFF THE DOOR!!!! Vote for change South Africa! Votela utshintsho emzantsi afrika! Vouta bakeng sa phetoho Afrika Borwa! Stem vir verandering suid-afrika! Its our LAST CHANCE to bring South Africa back from the brink disaster!

Anything to stay on the gravy train. Their first concern. Their last concern? The citizens.

#prayforgauteng

The EFF have no reason to make the ANC in Gauteng look good. They will help the ANC win control and then undermine and embarrass them at every opportunity.

The DA can't break 20% and are even battling in the Cape. The Democrats in the US have beteeen begging Buden to step down in favour of a different candidate because it should be wiping the floor with Trump. Similarly the DA should be wiping the floor with the ANC. Is there still time for Steenhuisen to step down in favour of an electable candidate because he is the very worst person to choose as leader, or is ego more important than becoming a winner. The DA can go blue in the face explaining they are not a white party but with this leadership the perception is that it is white and patronizing, and perception is more important in an election than track record or pages of manifesto.

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Can you imagine Gauteng with Ndlozi as Premier and Mkwebane as Speaker. Lesufi must be carefull what he wishes for

Looking at KZN and Gauteng, DA posters are not visible at all. In KZN, MK's posters are getting all the visibility, EFF and ANC. On the coalition side IFP, Action SA and VF are on the flagpoles. Seems like the DA has checked out of this election.