Change is in the air
Mmusi's DA makeover
Now that the DA has expanded its footprint beyond its Western Cape bastion, leader Mmusi Maimane is plotting a course to take the party national before the 2019 general election
A new DA in 2019? This is the proposition party leader Mmusi Maimane has put forward as the party settles in to govern the three metros it snatched from the ANC in this year’s local government election. After the election, the DA has shifted from a party with its only real power base in the Western Cape to one with a footprint in Gauteng, the Eastern Cape and Limpopo. Maimane is going about effecting changes that he hopes will result in the DA expanding this footprint in the 2019 national election. A policy review, shifting its headquarters, and a change in the way the DA selects its leaders is on the cards as the party eyes winning another province and possibly bringing the ANC below 50% in 2019. In an interview with the Financial Mail, Maimane says the party is not "deviating" from its liberal stance but will be anchored more in values than in ideology. "Nobody goes to the ballot box to express an ideological choice ... What I am saying is yes, we are a liberal house, no question ...
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