I agree South. I think fashionable ex ANC opinionista like Suttner find it massively difficult to acknowledge that the ANC is corrupt and/or incompetent to the core having led SA into a very precarious position, both socially and economically.  They also cannot acknowledge that the DA, pragmatically, offers the best chance of righting the listing ship.  Way better than the not so squeaky clean ANC of Cyril Ramaphosa and surely obviously better than the Zuma/Gupta ANC faction.

So Suttner cannot admit that the municipalities recently taken over by DA coalitions were on the brink of  failure; just the fact that so many voted for the DA shows this. The depth of ANC looting in these entities cannot be turned around overnight.  He is just as mealy mouthed about DA success in the WC, struggling to make even snide, backhanded acknowledgement of this.

Bottom line he should be urging a country first; city first view from any and all coalition partners, even those hugely far apart.