Opposition party stance likely to be at odds with SA laws on race
The DA has taken a step closer to its aim of being colour blind in terms of race, which is still one of the party’s most sensitive issues, while it has also called on a fresh approach to redress.
The race issue was highlighted in former leader Mmusi Maimane’s and former Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba’s resignations in 2019, and the party’s Gauteng leader John Moodey’s resignation just last week. The newly voted for principle states that “the assumption that one’s ‘race’ represents people who think, feel or have the same experience of shared events, based on their physical appearance, is false”.
The principle, however, acknowledges that social groups based on cultural, religious, political and linguistic factors do exist.
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