One cannot assess what is happening in the DA now without looking back at what has happened over the past five years or more. The key point about the crisis the party now finds itself in, which cannot be ignored, is the relevance of race in SA society in general. That includes politics, no matter how much formal commitment to nonracialism there may be in the DA.
It does appear that there were some white leaders in the DA who were nervous about the direction the diversity discourse was taking in the party, and that they saw it as a threat to their positions in the leadership hierarchy. The question now is what effect Zille’s election as the federal council chair will have on the delicate balance of these forces within the DA leadership.
Despite this backdrop, and being in such a difficult situation himself, Maimane argued in our interview that the “future of race relations must not be binary because if it is, we are going to go on a repetitive cycle of racial nationalism; it instead has to be a collective nonracial approach for it to work. But the problem about the nonracial project that we espouse is that it has not yielded economic outcomes.
Regardless of any weaknesses in his leadership, there can be no doubt that he is the best black leader liberalism has ever had in this country. The DA will be hard-pressed to find an adequate replacement. The party has far more to lose than Maimane.
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