De Beer: The dark & dirty games of Election ’24…

“…there are people that are rising and there are people that are falling…the dirty games are coming out...It's a nasty campaign, it's a dark campaign, and I predict in the next three days it's going to get worse.” These are the words of Neil de Beer, the President of the United Independent Movement (UIM). In this interview with BizNews, he dissects the current “climb” in popularity of the African National Congress (ANC), the disintegration of the top structure of former President Jacob Zuma’s MK and his daughter Duduzile’s move to secure a “dictatorship”; the secret and not-so-secret coalition talks; and the many parties that are “promising and writing checks in their name that their bodies can't cash”. De Beer warns of the impact of “international influence” on the outcome of the election, saying the party that “carries the most influence from outside will win and will then govern for the next five years with a huge sentiment of 60% influence globally, but 40% from the world masters”.