South Africa’s Democratic Alliance May Work With Ex-ANC Members
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South Africa’s main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, said it may form several local government coalitions with a group that split from the ruling African National Congress.
The party is in “preliminary talks” with the Congress of the People to jointly govern as many as eight municipalities where it didn’t win an absolute majority, DA Federal Executive Chairman James Selfe said in a phone interview from Cape Town today. The DA took 23.9 percent of the vote in the May 18 local government election in Africa’s largest economy.