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23 May 2012
   
 
 
Article by: Sapa
 
 
 

The Democratic Alliance's (DA's) victory in by-elections in Grabouw and Gugulethu this week put paid to the African National Congress's (ANC's) claim that it is a white party, opposition leader Helen Zille said on Friday.


"These results should put an end once and for all to the ANC's repeated lie that the DA is a white party, that we are racist and that we want to bring back apartheid," Zille wrote in her weekly newsletter.


The DA took 48% of the vote in Grabouw and 60,5%  in Gugulethu in by-elections on Wednesday, trouncing the ANC in two predominantly black wards.


"If there are white voters in them, it cannot be more than a handful," Zille stressed.


She said that her party would seek to expand its winning streak beyond the DA-controlled Western Cape but anticipated that this would see the ANC resort to undemocratic tactics, such as the vandalism of toilets in Khayelitsha two days before the by-elections.


"The greater the likelihood of the ANC losing power, the more the ANC will use unconstitutional and even violent means to hang on to it."

 

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