As the DA prepares to hold its Federal Congress to decide who gets to run the party for the next three years, Jane Sithole writes that John Steenhuisen is the only political leader that has taken his party to a higher level since he took over in 2019.
DA leader John Steenhuisen is hoping for a second term as party president. Photo: Rosetta Msimango/City Press
As the Democratic Alliance prepares to hold its Federal Congress where it will decide who gets to run the party for the next three years,writes that John Steenhuisen, who is hoping for a second term, is the only political leader that has taken his party to a higher level since he took over in October 2019.
There’s an old adage in politics that"voters have short memories". Quite correctly, in a democratic system, voters tend to be forward-looking, basing decisions about who to vote for on their expectations of what different political parties are likely to deliver in the future, rather than on what they did in the past. But this does not mean that there is no place for historical memory in political decisions.
In fact, in an environment where voters are inundated with empty promises from political leaders, the best way to judge what to actually expect from those leaders is to assess their track records.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.
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