Elections 2024: Being democratically empowered

In his lecture, titled, “Elections 2024: Why the DA, Mmusi Maimane, Songezo Zibi and Zachie Achmat failed”, Matisonn proffered that constitutionalist parties got the lion’s share of positive media coverage for more than a year leading up to the election and received generous donations for their campaigns. “They were the ‘new generation’ of post-apartheid, post-Mandela, post-Codesa South African leaders. Yet, when the results were in, the DA gained only 1%, which they got back from the Freedom Front Plus; Zibi’s Rise Mzansi and Maimane’s BOSA got two seats each, and Zackie Achmat failed to win a seat,” he said.