The draft policy on economic justice and redress the DA’s policy unit plans to release over the next few months will contain proposals as to how the party should tackle economic exclusion from both the ownership of the economy and from job promotion in the workplace.
A key proposal of the value and principles document was that the redress of the inequalities inherited from SA’s apartheid past should not be based on race. The contentious question as to whether race should be a proxy for disadvantage or whether this can be objectively measured without reference to race is one that has bedevilled the DA and caused factions within its ranks...
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