Zuma election sparks DA membership drive

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Zuma election sparks DA membership drive

Carien du Plessis @carienduplessis #Mangaung 19 December 2012 2:09

Minutes after President Jacob Zuma’s re-election into the party’s top spot was announced, the DA seized the moment by running a Twitter-driven membership drive.

The DA’s parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko retweeted several messages of people pledging their support for the party or asking where they could join the party.

One of the invites was of the DA caucus in Mangaung saying: “We invite all SA’ns who are disappointed, to join the DA in working for, and delivering, meaningful social change and job creation in SA”.

Lindi Mashinini (@LindiweEM) tweeted: “@Lindimazibuko You have my vote! I am not voting for Zuma as my President in 2014! For the 1st time in my life I am ashamed of the ANC!”

Kholofelo Maepa tweeted: “tjo, @lindimazibuko’s timeline is full of people joining #DA from #ANC, this second term is surely chasing people away form ANC.”

The DA City Bowl Branch tweeted: “Wow, our inbox is overflowing with people keen to join the DA. Welcome everyone!”

Sisanda Mbulana (@SMbulana) tweeted: “I’m officially joining the DA. Can’t stand Jacob Zuma and his people.”

A lot of tweets enquired about branches where they could get membership forms to join, and party councillors and MPs chirped in to give advice and direction.

Acclaimed writer Zakes Mda also picked up the trend, tweeting: “As I said before Mangaung: Zuma wins, DA celebrates.”

DA leader Helen Zille sent out an invite soon after the announcement about Zuma’s re-election was made to “all South Africans who are disappointed by the ANC’s decision today (to re-elect Zuma) to join his movement – this new majority that is working for, and delivering, meaningful social change and job creation in South Africa”.

Meanwhile, the ANC in a statement last night said DA leader Helen Zille’s comments on the ANC’s leadership election were the result of “political jealousy inspired by malicious desperation to have the same support enjoyed by the ANC in this country”.

Zille had said the election results would hasten the “disintegration” of the ruling party.

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http://www.facebook.com/sexyfancyface Mandy Chrissy

Wozani bafethu…..once you are in you won’t leave believe me…
Vutomi Mdlhovu

The DA wants to win the national election at all cost. If my memory remembers well that is the same drive the ANC have been taking all these years, going for big numbers in membership. The problem with focusing in numbers is, you’ll get members who only have self interest when joining the party leading to the battles for power position and faction. That is one of the reason the ANC is battling today.

If i were to advice the DA, i would say be patient and focus on manageable membership that is capable of delivering with hope that one day the SA voters will consider delivery when making their mark. Also the DA should prepare for some surprises on the next coming election. Just imagine if the ANC can have Ramaphosa as it presidential candidate, Trevor Manuel either as his deputy or Premier of the Western Cape such action can win the ANC a lots of votes.
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Be calm, Join the DA
0722196245

This is a DA Print media alliance propaganda. South African as clever than the way DA thinks. ANC members knows that it is all about collective not an individual. They can’t joint a racist organisation just because anc is led by someone they don’t like. Weak people like Lekota are very few in this country. We only get wishful thinking from print media and DA.
Media should stop spreading lies and unnecessary propaganda that will never weaken anc or promote da.
- theoverlordnu
  
  racist my foot.
- http://www.facebook.com/sereko.moroe Sereko Moroe
  
  Don’t forget the large support your beloved ANC has got was attained mainly through intimidation and violence in the the eighties. And the unfortunate part is that some of our fellow citizens still feel intimidated by members of the ANC. This is not the kind of support any self repecting person can be proud of. The DA to my knowledge do not have among themselves members who at one point forced people to join their demonstrations, killed to enforce boycotts or burnt down houses of people belonging to other political parties simply because they had a different strategy to fight apartheid.
  - Pat Mogale
    
    You forget so easily DA is a marriage between the Democratic Party and then National Party of which Democratic Alliance came to play’ they never had the interest of blacks at heart’ as African we should not worried about those that joins the DA, it is their democratic rights to do so, as a young African and the fact that I had studied South African History, i must say i will neva leave the ANC simply because of Zuma, I did not join the ANC because of him’ and will not bother or waist my time by criticizing the DA because I will not gain anything in doing so, cadres from the ANC must focus on building the ANC than waisting more energy talking about the DA, in actual fact we need them because imagine the ANC without the opposition in south Africa, south africa can be disastrous… Let us accept that in democratic society you will have situations of this nature and we all must just move forward without attacking one other or using vulgar against’ each party or organisation, why must we do that? For what purpose? I neva heard about any country that has no opposition party, if not so
    President Obama was not going to be contested by the Republicans…
    South Africa is a better place let us make it a home for all of us regardless of our ideoligical differences and stop insulting one other as if we do not have choices to any political party of our owns or the right to freedom of association!,
- nkosie mthimkhulu
  
  dat is purely why the da needs quality in its ranks not stupid & racist ppl like u….what do u kno about propaganda?? please….!!
http://profile.yahoo.com/PMXZSIIBNABYNLKOWE2CICFVLU Hell en

Hell, All of these stupid blacks now running to support us in the DA will not regret their decision. We will stand by them, by offering them less important and lower paid jobs. The key positions we will still reserve for our more competent WHITE males. We just needs these ignorant blacks to increase our votes in order to gain control in 2014.
- nkosie mthimkhulu
  
  yeah right, clever white. i assume. by d way the da’s plan is to take over in 2019 not 2014 as u say, so go back to oranje & dream on. by the way a stupid black is the da leader in the national assembly, in case u didn’t know. you clever fool.
- http://www.facebook.com/danita.renecle Danita Renecle
  
  Hell en , You are definitely not a DA supporter , you are either from FFP + or an ANC under cover agent. The DA do not want your ilk at all. You are deliberately working against the DA. No stupid racist whatsoever are welcome. The DA stands for unity in diversity, all religions, all agnostics, all homosexuals, heterosexuals , races, in other words democrats are welcome. The DA works to a common cause for all our people and put the country first. What is good for the country is good for its citizens.
nkosie mthimkhulu

don’t just join us (DA) coz ur grumpy bt make sure u gonna come & work for change in ur community, thats what we do, we r activist, we hold the municipalities accountable, where we govern we make a difference.
http://twitter.com/sellopat SELLO MOHALE

I think the arrival of Ramaphosa will pull back many of the ANC members and supporters who left the party to join COPE and DA. These two parties will lose out more. If Ramaphosa was not sidelined some years ago the ANC would not have seen most of the self-destruction it went through. Even the youth league would not try to embarass the mother-body like it did.

Both the DA and COPE should now be very afraid. Cyril is back in town.

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