A question that needs to be asked of the DA is: do they realise the importance of a truly integrated official opposition in current SA politics?
The reincarnation of Tony Leon was completed this past weekend in the official opposition with the election of John Steenhuisen as interim leader following the recent resignation of Mmusi Maimane. The only positive they can draw from Steenuisen’s victory is that it stopped the clueless Makashule Gana from ascending to the highest office in local opposition politics.
The Democratic Alliance and, indeed, any significant political party truly committed to addressing past injustices, needs a black leader, but not one in the mould of Gana who sounded hopelessly like a fence-sitter on all issues related to race. The SA political landscape has been ripe for an opposition party that puts the country first since the days of the Congress of the People . In fact, if it wasn’t for the vindictive and eventually destructive battle for leadership between Mbhazima Shilowa and Mosioa Lekota, Cope would be sitting pretty right now.
The naive political assertion that Maimane did not really have a political constituency because he too was a Zille creation is what will hurt the DA the most.
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