The most pressing task facing the next leader of the DA is to redefine and reinvigorate the politics of nonracialism THE most pressing task facing the next leader of the DA is to redefine and reinvigorate the politics of nonracialism.Nonracialism has fallen on bad times.SA is moving, "closer and closer", to the brink of "racial war", according to University of Cape Town academic Xolela Mangcu, "simply because white people refuse to take seriously the pain of black people".Sisonke Msimang, writing in The New York Times, argues that the "banal script of reconciliation" has run out of steam. The "myth" of the rainbow nation is unravelling.Meanwhile, students punctuate their demands for transformation with racially polarising cries of "one settler, one bullet". And racial nationalists of all hues divert their frustrations into protests about symbols.But instead of abandoning nonracialism, we should embrace it with renewed energy. We should give it proper content and meaning. And we shou...
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