The DA remains bad at political optics and is often tone-deaf. The recent media release about the Referendum Act by their parliamentary chief whip, Natasha Mazzone (Star of Italy), who besides her boss John Steenhuisen is the most celebrated matriculant in SA legislative history, is a case in point.
Why, given the furore around the recent DA qualifications scandals, is it a sound media strategy to push for a legal proposal for a provincial referendum that needs a constitutional amendment, and to have it trotted out by one such as she? ..
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