ActionSA leader warns about white parties governing in South African cities and looking like a flashback from the past

ActionSA parliamentary leader Athol Trollip warned against perceived white parties forming a coalition to govern, looking like a flashback from the past.

He shared this view during an interview with Alec Hogg on Biznews, in which he discussed the current coalition negotiations.

In a separate interview, Freedom Front Plus leader Corné Mulder proposed a Democratic Alliance-ActionSA-Freedom Front Plus coalition.

This coalition, he said, would be stable and ensure that the African National Congress (ANC) is kicked out of governing the cities it destroyed.

He argued that it would be much easier to improve service delivery without the ANC sharing power in a municipality.

Trollip had a different take. He said that there was a very important perspective to consider with such a coalition.

“If the DA, ActionSA, and the Freedom Front Plus go into a coalition and govern alone, it can be regarded as a flashback to the past where white parties ran the government,” he said.

“ActionSA is not a white party. We have proven that by winning all those former ANC wards. But that is what people call us. They call us a white party.”

“If it looks like something from the past, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, it might just be a duck, and people are very worried about that.”

Trollip said that he has been involved in negotiations with parties in the Eastern Cape to bring about a new government in Grahamstown and Nelson Mandela Bay.

“That model looks infinitely better because it consists of parties that have worked together, can work together, have cooperated before, and have built trust,” he said.

“It doesn’t look like something from the past or a reincarnation of a past government. It looks more like a true South African scenario.”

This scenario, he said, is where the DA, ActionSA, the UDM, the Freedom Front Plus, and other parties come together to put the people first.