by News Reporter

JOHANNESBURG: After failing to get an outright majority in the elections, the ANC-DA coalition is a foregone conclusion based on the secret deal closed yesterday.

Businessman Johan Rupert and the Oppenheimer family met with a few ANC leaders to give them R150-million to sell the 6-million votes to the DA, and drive the ANC-DA coalition. This is after the R100-million donation to small multi-party group failed to get even 100,000 votes collectively. Rise Mzansi, Action SA, BOSA, and the rest of the Oppenheimer parties lost badly in the elections despite the big donations.

In the coalition, Ramaphosa will be South Africa's President and DA leader, John Steenhuisen, as Deputy. Paul Mashatile has already been told to toe the line if he does not want the NPA/Hawks to charge him for the Waterfall Estate house and other allegations. Mashatile will be given a ministerial position to save face.

Mbalula and other senior officials were tasked with selling the idea of the coalition with the DA inside the ANC. "Those who need to be bought must be bought, and those who need to be forced to take it must be forced," said Rupert. Koos Bekker and Naspers have been called and tasked with promoting this idea through their News24.com platform and other media outlets. International media and some local media will do the same.

In the ANC-DA coalition deal, the ANC was told to get rid of a lot of its policies, including the pro-Palestine stance, which the DA hates.

The coalition is critical for business families because the unbundling of Eskom and privatisation of SOEs will make a lot of money for them. SOEs budget is over R1,5 trillion a year. Rupert invested billions in building an energy company to replace Eskom, plus interests in the IPPs making R1 trillion over a year.

The Oppenheimer family and the prominent white businessmen have also invested heavily in industries that will replace or take over the SOEs eyed for sale. An ANC-EFF coalition, or anything other than the DA-ANC coalition, will sink billions of their "investments".

With Mbalula already jostling for ANC presidency in 2027, this is a good deal for him, because Mashatile will not have some advantage over everyone. Mbalula's notable absence in the IEC Results Operating Centre has been because he is busy working on the deal and has been holding long meetings to map out the way forward.

ANC internal polls had long told it that it would lose majority, but the default position of the ANC in terms of coalitions has always been the EFF. But Rupert and the Oppenheimer families are clear, they do not want the black parties with radical policies in any coalition, it will not be good for their businesses.

The ANC-DA coalition is a simple thing, a direct sale of the 6-million ANC votes to the DA. The ANC won't implement any policy, and that coalition will be secretly controlled directly by a committee to be appointed, which will include the direct Rupert and Oppenheimer families.

During a smoke break, Rupert jokingly said, "R150 Million is a small change to pay the few ANC leaders" to save his deals amounting to billions, and take SOEs worth trillions. The Oppenheimers spent a lot more for little return. This DA-ANC coalition must happen.

To sell the idea to the ANC supporters who are going to hate seeing their votes donated to the DA, News24 was told to run stories that "investors will come" to South Africa if South Africa has a white Deputy President. Yet the DA has been struggling to bring "investors" in the Western Cape.

In the next few days after the IEC results, the media will hear the DA-ANC coalition on radio, print, and all media. This is not normal news, but it will be the media selling the coalition pact designed and forced by big business, which paid a few ANC leaders a pittance to sell the soul of the 112-year-old liberation movement.

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