As the DA prepares for its policy conference to take place early next year, some party members are busy lobbying for support of their call for the party to keep racial redress on top of its agenda.
Among those who were lobbying for the redressing the apartheid injusctice include DA Gauteng MPL Makashule Gana and KwaZulu-Natal party leader Zwakele Mncwango. Gana, who was at the weekend defeated by John Steenhuisen when the federal council voted for the interim leader, told Independent Media that the policy conference should make recommendation in favour of racial redress “because the legacy of apartheid is still here”.
The federal council’s 160 members had on Sunday at the party’s headquarters in Johannesburg also elected Ivan Meyer as the party’s interim federal chairperson. Gana said those who believed there should be redress in the country would now start a process of lobbying those who share a different belief.
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