For most of the 24 years since 1994, it has been apparent that lip service is paid to the principle of non-racialism. Although the DA professes to embrace that idea, by seeking to prioritise racial diversity in its structures (Daily News, March...
The DA’s dilemma with its Cape Town mayor, Patricia De Lille, is entirely self-inflicted. In that the DA prescribes rigorous probity tests for its public representatives, De Lille should never have been accepted as a DA public rep. In...
The ANC’s charges against Makhosi Khoza MP invite comparison with those the DA brought against Helen Zille. Both women, it would appear, are victims of wanton autocracy. In both cases, the accused are said to have brought the names of their...
The letter by JR Whitlock (Mercury, June 19) concerning fake smiles and friends in the DA is pertinent in the light of remarks by RW Johnson in the second edition of his book How long will South Africa survive? Noting the growing influence of...
Ostensibly the DA has achieved closure with regard to Helen Zille and her views on colonialism. But while the terms and conditions of the settlement reduce Zille to a mere pawn on the DA chessboard, the rhetoric in which the settlement is wrapped...
Whilst there are clearly personal, vindictive agendas within the DA motivating punitive action against Helen Zille, the implications of her indictment for making objective remarks about the legacies of colonialism are manifold Central to these is...
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