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The ANC’s election strategy: Blackmail

The ANC’s election strategy: Blackmail

Posted April 14, 2011 by Jacques Rousseau

Instead of presenting a case for why one should vote for the ANC in the upcoming local government elections, some spokespersons for the ANC seem more intent on using emotional blackmail to make voters think that they have no options other than voting for the ruling party. After all, who wants to risk killing Mandela or going to hell?

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Mark your X in the box labelled “stereotype”

Mark your X in the box labelled “stereotype”

Posted August 11, 2010 by Jacques Rousseau

If your view is that everything the DA does is racist, or that everything the ANC does is symptomatic of a creeping nationalism, then the problem is not the party – it is you.

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SA Elections: The DA’s “Stop Zuma” campaign

Posted April 21, 2009 by Jacques Rousseau

The DA’s “Stop Zuma” campaign represents an “own goal”, and will only alienate the undecideds in South Africa’s 2009 election.

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