He's been popular with me. I've never voted DA in my life. I'm seriously considering doing so in future though - because I'm impressed by their leader. Right now the biggest thing holding me back is that I am far less impressed by H.Z.
The other major thing is putting a former head of the FMF in charge as mayor of Johburg - that's to my mind like appointing the Ku  Klux Klan to run the pentagon. But to his credit his actual work as mayor has been to ignore absolutely every idiocy the FMF spouts and actually do the job of of a social-democratic government, so perhaps he has grown in his thought. I'll keep looking and see how he proceeds. If he starts privatising essential services, my tentative future DA vote will evaporate rather quickly.