Talk:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)

message: For the main opposition party in South Africa, there's very little about their policies and what they stand for etc... Nil Einne 10:00, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Seconded. Scotteh 15:00, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

text: I'm now busy trying to get hold of a higher res image of the party - I'm pretty sure it's somewhere on the party's site. The current one is slightly low res (appears to have been compressed badly as a jpg at some stage) --Mulaudzi8 (talk) 15:16, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Isn't the "current policies" section a bit too detailed? I see no such corresponding section on the ANC article. Couldn't it be trimmed a bit at least? -- 80.217.141.69 (talk) 00:05, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Party policies 

message: Wouldn't someone mind creating a user box for the DA? I used one for the ANC because I could not find a DA one. If you don't know what a user box is, visit my profile. I'd love to put up a DA box. Scotteh 15:03, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nevermind. I don't use user boxes anymore. Scotteh 11:44, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: User Boxes

message: Just a correction, Douglas Gibson is not in the race for the party's leadership (which is scheduled to be voted on Sunday, 6 May 2007. The candidates are Helen Zille, Joe Seremane and Athol Trollip, with Zille "ahead of the pack" if the Mail & Guardian report can be trusted. Zille ahead of pack in leadership race
MariusHR 00:18, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  DA Leadership Race 2007 

message: Might not Tony Leon's emphasis on "the protection of human rights" be considered to be in conflict with his vocal support for the reintroduction of the death penalty during the run-up to the 2004 national elections. Shouldn't some mention, perhaps, be made of this? GermanySA  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.6.64.7 (talk) 10:42, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: What I did with the new article is make reference to Leon's (alleged) rightward shift (including his support of the death penalty). I agree it's worth mentioning --Mulaudzi8 (talk) 05:43, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tony Leon 

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message: There's a long section setting out the DA's policies, for instance on crime and policing, should they come to power. X amount of extra cops will be hired and so forth. This seems very manifesto-ish.  It may inadvertently be Crystal Ball gazing and Soap-boxing.  Should so much detailed election promises concerning future eventualities be included, especially if the source is ANY political party?  Wondering! BlandBaroque (talk) 07:41, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  DA's future policies 

message: After inserting content in the infobox listing the DA's youth league and political position the content is unable to be displayed (see source). I was wondering whether this might be attributed to the template's coding, as this article (as well as other South African parties) does not use the generic "Infobox political party" but uses "Infobox South African politcal party." Could somebody with better technical expertise please fix this, or at least advise me on how to do so. 
Furthermore, assistance in improving this article would be greatly appreciated. DiscipleOfKnowledge DiscipleOfKnowledge 23:28, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The political position information didn't appear because you misspelled the "position" parameter as "postion". :-) I didn't see any youth league-related stuff in your edit, but I added "DA Youth" using the youth_wing parameter. - htonl (talk) 23:40, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: LOL. I rarely mispell. Thanks for helping me with this. I see you frequently edit South African articles. Message me if you need my help on anything, and I will gladly help. I am a good writer, so call on me if you need to add substance to certain articles; I find copy-editing to be somewhat tedious. Thanks again! DiscipleOfKnowledge DiscipleOfKnowledge 00:02, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
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message: I won't edit this article myself because of my declared conflict of interest, but the "Electoral reform" section is looking a bit out of date; it should be updated to reflect that citizens are now allowed to vote from outside the country. - htonl (talk) 11:43, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Electoral reform" section could do with an update 

message: I won't edit this article myself, because I'm a DA staff member, so there would be a perceived conflict of interest. But I have some suggestions for changes. (And to be clear, I am making these suggestions in a personal capacity and not on behalf of the party.)
If the article is going to list the Deputy Chairperson of Federal Council in the infobox, it should also list the Chairperson of Federal Council, who is James Selfe (he was re-elected unopposed). For clarity, the full list of the new federal leaders, with their correct titles, is:
* Leader: Mmusi Maimane
* Federal Chairperson: Athol Trollip
* Deputy Federal Chairpersons: Ivan Meyer, Refiloe Ntsekhe, Desiree van der Walt
* Chairperson of Federal Council: James Selfe
* Deputy Chairperson of Federal Council: Thomas Walters
* Chairperson of the Federal Finance Committee: Alf Lees
- htonl (talk) 20:46, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Leadership in infobox 

message: Is it really needed? It contains info about who leads the party (Maimane, Trollip, Selfe) and how many members the party has in parliament. This information is already included in the infox to the right in the article, so does it really need to be stated twice? I feel the opening section is long enough as it is -- Darthdyas (talk) 22:19, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Last paragraph in the opening text? 

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message: I am sorry if drop wrong the thing DA is for big city only. i'm in libode the even office for DA .  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.13.200.224 (talk) 17:10, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
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message: Is there a difference between Federal Council Chairperson and Federal Chairperson of the DA. And if so, how do we know Helen Zille succeeded Athol Trollip as Federal Chairperson? I know Helen Zille is Federal Council Chairperson, as per the ref I've added to the infobox, but where is a ref for her role as Federal Chairperson? comrade waddie96 ★ (talk)  10:29, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: – comrade waddie96 ★ (talk)  10:32, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

text: Please see my talk page. LefcentrerightTalk (plz ping) 14:10, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Difference between Federal Council Chairperson and Federal Chairperson 

message: I'm not going to edit the article myself because I have a COI (see my user page), but someone might want to add Ashor Sarupen in the infobox alongside the other two Deputy Chairpersons of Federal Council. The recent Congress voted to add a third deputy, and Sarupen was elected today in a special election to fill that position. See . The article Democratic Alliance Federal Council would also need updating. - htonl (talk) 16:28, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Third Deputy Chairperson of Federal Council 

message: I’m not going to touch this article at all because of my declared COI. But there is an external link to https://da-news.co.za/ which appears to be a completely dead site. I would suggest it should be removed. htonl (talk) 17:14, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

message: The DA is categorized as center sourcing an early 2019 article. I has since moved to the right in turning its back on Black leadership and becoming more of a party of White identity. I would suggest orientation should be categorized as center right to rightwing GaryJonathan (talk) 19:45, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  political orientation 

message: I see there's been some back-and-forth about the slogan. As I have indicated on my userpage, I work for the DA, so I can't touch the article but hopefully I can help with slogan info. "One Nation, One Future" hasn't been used for years now. "The DA Gets Things Done" was the campaign slogan for the 2021 local government elections. If you want to name a single party slogan it would be "Freedom, Fairness, Opportunity and Diversity" as indicated in section 1.2 of the party constitution. htonl (talk) 10:04, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks .  please see the above. If you wish to add a slogan, it needs to be sourced. Stating "it was literally used in Mutiple Campain Ads" in an edit summary is not sufficient, see HELP:Referencing for beginners. Greenman (talk) 12:04, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: @Greenman my bad I'm new so I'm not that good😭 EdgemeadsWikiKing (talk) 17:36, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

text: @Htonl Thanks you! EdgemeadsWikiKing (talk) 17:36, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slogan 

message: The new source says that coloureds and whites have the strongest support for DA. However, 32% of black people support the DA which is a larger number than the total combined amount of white and coloureds in the country due to their large population size. 
Both whites and coloureds only make up 7% each while black people make up 81%. so 31% of 81% means 25%, which is greater than 14% (whites and coloureds combined)
The new source also doesn't mention that the support comes from Afrikaans and English communities. According to the wiki article, the DA has made some inroads into sotho and other linguistic communities. 
I believe the strongest support section be removed since it is no longer accurate.
New source: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/05/03/in-south-africa-racial-divisions-and-pessimism-over-democracy-loom-over-elections/ Guotaian (talk) 04:43, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strongest support is not from white people