The document will add to the already released one on values and principles
The draft policy on economic justice and redress the DA’s policy unit plans to release over the next few months will contain proposals as to how the party should tackle economic exclusion from both the ownership of the economy and from job promotion in the workplace.
The official opposition has been torn down the middle mainly on the issue of race and economic redress. DA federal council chair Helen Zille is strongly opposed to BEE and affirmative action based on race, an issue that was fundamental to the departure from the party of former DA leader Mmusi Maimane and former Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba.
But while the DA supports the goals of ANC policies, it rejects BEE and affirmative action as the means to achieve them as they are based on the racial categorisation of the beneficiaries of the policies. DA policy head Gwen Ngwenya told members of the Cape Town Press Club on Monday that the proposed DA policy on economic justice would be fundamentally different from that of the government.
“We are very much focused on economic exclusion. We realise that there are many people in this country who do not participate in the economy in any way and our policy is definitely focused on how we can bring more people into the economy — both in terms of ownership and job opportunities across the spectrum,” Ngwenya said in an interview after her speech.
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