Gareth van Onselen

Gareth van Onselen is a South African political strategist, pollster, and commentator. A former head of communications for the opposition Democratic Alliance, he resigned from the party acrimoniously in 2013. He currently runs Victory Research, a market research company. Until May 2023, he also wrote a regular column in the Business Day Quotes Water has stopped running, electricity has stopped working, and so there is more buy-in from the electorate, but it's a real challenge to get South Africans to understand that some of the most fundamental changes that need to happen are not going to result in an immediate visual change.” Action South Africa have done the sum that they have neither the resources nor the time to campaign everywhere. They need to maximise their returns, and they've essentially used the 2024 results to determine where their prospects are best and are going to focus on those areas – and that makes sense for a smaller party.” If the DA does have an exceptional election and achieves its goal of 500 000 voters, all it will have done is returned the bar to zero, reinvigorating its existing voter base to vote at the same level they did in 2016.” It’s incredibly difficult - not necessarily to form a coalition, because everyone wants a seat at the table. However, given that people are not willing to compromise in a reasonable way on issues that are bigger than their tiny stake in the pie to maintain a coalition, things start to fall apart.” External links Category: Living people