Resignations from the DA – Rats from a captured ship

 

By Mike Smith

16^th of January 2026

The DA is a struggle party; they are a struggling party. Struggling to remain afloat with some of their most prominent members either resigning or defecting recently. The latest was Dion George, Former Minister of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries who resigned from the DA and Parliament yesterday, citing that the situation has become intolerable and that his party boss John Steenhuizen, has asked President Ramaphosa to fire him. So he rather resigned.

Further it evinced that Dion George accused the DA (and Steenhuizen) of being “captured by the ANC. The result of this capture meant that the DA has become completely muzzled and lost its voice against the misrule of the ANC.

Of course Dion George is not the only one. He is one of many in a recent string of rats to leave the sinking, captured ship. Ghaleb Cachalia – resigned from the DA and Parliament  in January 2024/early 2025).

Emma Powell – stepped down from a senior party role as DA’s international relations spokesperson in July 2025 and Liam Jacobs – quit the DA and joined another party June 2025, the Patriotic Alliance party. These resignations and defections reflect ongoing internal tensions within the DA, including disagreements over leadership direction, policy positions (such as on foreign policy), and responses to coalition politics at national level.

To put it simply: They resigned because they can see that since the “Government of National Unity” or GNU, the DA and other parties in the GNU, simply joined the “Soustrein” (Sauce train) and are raking it in together with the ANC. Stuff the ordinary South Africans now. When it rains porridge you must scoop!

To give you a bit of a background, following the 29 May 2024 general election, no single party (including the ANC) won an outright majority — prompting negotiations between parties.

So, on 14 June 2024, the ANC, the Democratic Alliance (DA), the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the Patriotic Alliance (PA) agreed to form what has been described as a Government of National Unity or GNU.

This coalition later expanded to include a total of ten political parties, marking the official start of the second GNU.

That is right, most people think that the GNU is only made up of the ANC and the DA, but that is not true. And the other point is…it was tried before. In 1994.

 

Be it as it may, NOTHING changed with the GNU. It is still all ANC. The ANC is still in power the ANC still rules and most importantly…you hear NOTHING now from the other nine parties in the GNU. They have been captured, bought, bribed….call it what you want. South Africa is now more of a One Party State than before the GNU.

Now, like I said…this was not the first time. South Africa’s first Government of National Unity was formed immediately after the first democratic elections on 27 April 1994.

It operated under the Interim Constitution and included the African National Congress (ANC), National Party (NP) and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), among others, to guide the transition from apartheid to democratic governance. It only lasted about 2 years. the NP formally withdrew earlier in 1996 but it officially lasted until the end of the first democratic Parliament in 1999.

After the 2024 when the DA entered the GNU with the ANC, people were all starry eyed and thought that this would be the solution for South Africa. I just chuckled, because I knew what was coming. The DA would now find out like the NP back in 1994-1996 how frustrating it would be to work with the ANC.

The problem is that most politicians simply do not understand Communism and how it works. Politicians in a rational world are naïve idealists who (for the most part) carry the people’s interest at heart. They think Communists share this “Service to the people” principle. They think Communism is just another form of government and if you debate long enough with them you will be able to convince them to act in the best interest of the country and its people. After all this is what people in a rational democracy do, don’t they?

Nothing could be further from the truth and when the Communists start acting strange and completely contrary to rational government, the other politicians trying to work with them are usually dumfounded and dumbstruck. Their first reaction is that these people must be stupid. The next is that they are completely incompetent…and so it goes on.

Truth is that Communists are neither stupid nor incompetent. They are some of the most deviously intelligent, criminally minded psychopaths that ganged together to do one thing, Leech the country dry.

Communism is not a political or economic philosophy. It is a diabolical recipe thought out by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels to get to power, stay in power for ever and steal a country and its people into bankruptcy.

Like psychopaths they lack any empathy for other people. They feel nothing for the people of a country nor the animals nor the trees of any country they control. Main thing is that they can carry off the billions.

Once you understand that and see Communists through the right lens, their actions all start making sense.

Communists don’t care if people starve or do not have houses. They don’t care if there is no clean water, national parks being poached dry. They don’t care if people have no electricity. Every disaster is for them an opportunity to steal money.

Problem; reaction; solution.

Communists are not interested in repairing roads or infrastructure. In fact they want it to decline (Problem) until there is an outcry from the people that “Something must be done” (Reaction) and then the Communists step up as the heroes with an offer (the Solution).

This is then their mandate to contract some nepotistic company (BEE Tender) and syphon off all the money. Press repeat until there are no more people and no more money left to pay for all their shit. Once the country is bankrupt, they move on.

Back in 1994 I had friends who were NP members of parliament. They were crying like babies almost daily at the antics (antrix) of these Communist scumbags. They foolishly and honestly believed that they could work together with these things. No way. Never. You either become one of them or you run for the hills and try to get as far away from them as possible.

Problem is that when they are in power, they don’t let go. Elections are a joke to them. You can vote what you want, they will fix the numbers afterwards. They wipe their arse with the constitution and the rule of law. They appoint the judges. They control the police and armed forces, they make the laws…what are you going to do? Under Communism there is only one right…You have the right to have no rights.

Communists don’t even care about a weak and corrupt police force…and the associated escalation in crime. They don’t care if people are raped, killed on farms, or die from drugs. Main thing is that the police don’t get any ideas to stage a Coup d’tat. The same with the armed forces. In the mind of the Communist, a strong army or strong police is competition and can grab the power very quickly. Therefore you see the Navy, the Air Force and the Army in the state they are in.

This does not mean that the Communists do not have an army at all. Far from it. Their army is the Proletariat. The common people. They wage “People’s War”…thought out by the Vietnamese general Võ Nguyên Giáp…the man who defeated first France and then the USA. Incidentally he had no formal military training. He didn’t get a degree from West Point or an equivalent. He was a history teacher and a journalist.

Communists don’t need tanks and planes. Women, farmers and school children are their soldiers. Some fight, some gather intelligence, some hide soldiers, some move supplies. Villages, jungles, cities, and countryside are all part of the battlefield. The enemy’s soldiers are vilified for fighting against civilians…Every dead one is used to recruit ten more.

The strategy is as brilliant as it is diabolical.

Nevertheless, it is clear for all to see that John Steenhuisen has been silenced. Whether his silence was coerced or bought is not clear at this stage. Probably a mixture of both seeing that he has no formal education past matric and as a career politician there aren’t that many possibilities in South Africa. Bly stil, hou jou be ken vat die donnerse geld.

…but the ANC still rules South Africa.