2019 PEOPLE OF THE YEAR: The Saboteurs (2) — Helen Zille: Honey, I shrunk the DA ferialhaffajee
It is one of the political images of the year: DA leader Mmusi Maimane is announcing his resignation. So is the party’s federal chairperson, Athol Trollip. The newly elected chairperson of the party’s federal executive, Helen Zille, stands behind them.
A review report by party strategist Ryan Coetzee, former leader Tony Leon and businessman Michiel le Roux had devastated Maimane. In 200 submissions, DA members painted a picture of a party in disarray with a head office divided and fearful.It is of course true that what the DA seeks to do is hard and that the environment in which it operates is tough.
Now pruner-in-chief, Zille has led an aggressive and fast campaign against the naming of race as a problem to be solved in South Africa. She is lead advocate of a new race-blind politics parroted by the party’s new establishment but clearly her brainchild.Another thing polling shows… even if you have a black leader and eight of nine other leaders are black and the head of Dawn [ leadership while holding true to a vision of overcoming race as a fundamental identity in a socially just country.
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