The progressives are biding their time – and waiting for both the policy and elective conferences – to make their move, according to party insiders.
This is the same faction that lost against party chair Helen Zille – and, in extension, the “classical liberals” – during the battle royal at the federal council chair elections. This has seen party members differing on how much the state needs to assist in creating an inclusive environment for people to thrive in, or whether to intervene to address past imbalances.
Another source, who sits on the federal council, agreed that they were playing the long-term game, adding that an interim leader had no powers. “Herman [Mashaba]’s speech still haunts me when I go to bed. I don’t care what his motives are for resigning, but what the man said was true. Policy will answer this question of race and finally end this so-called battle for the soul. What I will not do, and I think many of my comrades will not do, is to be part of a party I cannot sell to my own people,” the party leader said.
“To many black people, ‘blackness’ is irrevocably linked to their material conditions, which are more dire compared to their white compatriots. It absolutely does not hurt to acknowledge this predicament,” he writes in the letter.
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