# ActionSA says voting for the DA in the 2026 local government elections is not a protest vote; it is a vote for dysfunction, collapse, and political grandstanding. The party’s Funzi Ngobeni says that in 2014, Helen Zille told South Africans not to waste their votes on smaller parties, and a decade later, she is still singing the same tune. Ngobeni says the idea of the DA as the smart vote no longer holds up to the lived experience of the very people it seeks to convince:
ActionSA says voting DA in the local government elections is a vote for dysfunction [SOUND]
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