Sources in the DA say the party’s senior leaders in KwaZulu-Natal are pushing for their national leaders to concede that controversial election posters in Phoenix, send the wrong message to voters about race and should be taken down.
A DA poster in Phoenix ahead of local government elections. The community there came under fire in July after 36 people were killed in unrest in the area.Sources in the DA say the party’s senior leaders in KwaZulu-Natal are pushing for their national leaders to concede thatin Phoenix, north of Durban, send the wrong message to voters about race and should be taken down.
TimesLIVE can reveal that DA provincial leader Francois Rogers did not sign off on the posters, and apparently only found out about them with the rest of SA. When contacted by TimesLIVE, Rogers referred all questions to Macpherson, who is the provincial chair of the DA in the province. Macpherson indicated via text message that he was in a meeting and could not take calls.
“Since no-one in the top leadership knew we also did not know, this whole thing is discouraging because it is erasing our hard work on the ground.
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