“Why just A and C. What about option B?”
December 16, 2008 1 Comment
In a new television commercial for Nando’s, a popular fast food chain, Evita Bezuidenhout, a kind of South African Dame Edna – but with more political bite – riffed on the changes in the country’s politics. Bezuidenhout was “disappointed” to find only two similar sounding meal options for the same price, then deadpanned: “Why just A and C. What about option B? You know we all know you can’t just have A and C.”
Bezuidenhout’s wish is coming true today as the Congress of the People, an opposition party born out of the upheavals in the ruling African National Congress in the last year or so, is officially launched in Bloemfontein, one of the country’s nine provincial capitals.
Where’s the shameless self-promotion tag?
You raise an interesting question about what happens to the DA now that there is another real contender to be an opposition party. I am not sure the suburbs (by which I mean the middle class broadly) are flocking quite yet to COPE.