BN Edge | ActionSA's Trollip says it's up to the DA to break coalition standoff

Athol Trollip knows how coalitions end: one made him mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay, another removed him. Speaking to Alec Hogg after ActionSA took dozens of former ANC wards in Gauteng, the party's parliamentary leader argued that the next move belonged to the DA, not ActionSA, and explained why a tidy three-way deal with the DA and the Freedom Front Plus was not the easy answer many expected. He revisited the 2016 Johannesburg negotiations that, in his telling, sit at the root of today's bad blood, pushed back on Tony Leon's and Prince Mashele's readings of the result, and set out what ActionSA wanted in Tshwane, Ekurhuleni and Nelson Mandela Bay. He also explained how a small Karoo town became ActionSA's newest foothold, and why he believed funders who walked away in 2024 would be back.