INTERNAL CHALLENGES
AUBREY MATSHIQI: De Lille quit amid ideological tension
Patricia de Lille’s resignation had nothing to do with internal party dynamics, writes Aubrey Matshiqi
Because of its size, the ANC tends to attract more attention than the DA. We know much more about the ANC’s internal dynamics than we do about what is going on inside the DA. There is a greater search for bad news about the ANC, which is matched impressively by our insatiable appetite for good news about the DA. In fact, rumour and innuendo about the ANC and its leaders are treated as biblical truth, while rumour and innuendo about the DA and its leaders are regarded as conspiracy theories. The ANC leaders have destroyed the image of what was once a "glorious movement of our people". As a result, it has become quite easy for some among us to imagine that the sins of the DA, past and present, can be erased and cleansed by the ANC’s sins and failures. The DA is, therefore, imagined by some to be the moral other of the ANC. Despite the growth in the number of black people who vote for and are members of the DA, one of the things that shields the DA from criticism and scrutiny is the fa...
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