When a party communicates with people only through billboards and TV adverts, it never truly knows just how huge the gap is between their posters and reality, writes Yonela Diko.
Sources said that internal party polling had shown that it was on an upward trajectory before the row, which forced the party s KwaZulu-Natal leadership to take down banners in the predominantly Indian suburb.
Mike Waters wrote a scathing attack on the DA, saying that he couldn’t continue promoting and defending a party capable of spineless treachery following the party s decision to remove its controversial banners in Phoenix.
The Democratic Alliance (DA)’s mayoral candidate for the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro, Nqaba Bhanga, said that racially polarising election posters would not be put up in his city.