DA leader Mmusi Maimane during a sitting of parliament on February 2018. PICTURE: ESA ALEXANDER/SUNDAY TIMESSA doesn’t exactly have a shortage when it comes to bizarre and ridiculous stories, especially around issues of identity, specifically race. But very few beat the story that broke on Sunday that a DA member seeking inclusion in the party’s election list was asked to prove her race.
That’s not to say, race is not a complicated issue in this country. It can only be thus, with the still unresolved issue of how to undo the legacy and injustice of apartheid, while at the same time trying to forge a common identity. This could lead to another storm, but two months ahead of the general elections, the party has to put its head down and act against those who arbitrarily damage its image.
The list processes in itself is tough enough for the party, which has to balance its commitment to nonracism with A poll released on Wednesday by the Institute of Race Relations , however, shows that this is not going to be so easy, predicting that there will be no outright winner in Gauteng, with the ANC sitting on 41.6% and the DA on 32.4%. But the DA is also going to have to work extra hard in its stronghold the Western Cape, which it took in 2014 with an outright majority, getting 59.4%. The IRR’s current poll show it at 50.1%.
The DA abandoned non-racialism ages ago. Now it's no different to the cANCer when it comes us using and abusing race as a measure of everything under the sun.
Whoever wrote this twaddle :
DA must get on top of many things in this country.
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