LETTER: South Africans must stop retreating into their racial laagers
DA national spokesperson Solly Malatsi says his party is not controlled by ‘white bosses’
As someone who serves in the senior decision-making structures of the DA, I can assure you that Mmusi Maimane is very much in control of his party, no matter what Carol Paton may say to the contrary (DA, ANC likely to bleed votes in Western Cape provincial election, May 6). Her assertion that Maimane is controlled by “white bosses” within the DA is simply not true. Worse, her thinking seems to be based in, and perpetuates, a black inferiority-white superiority complex. Is it unimaginable to her that a black man can lead a party of all races? Chris Hani warned that the most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. The DA’s federal leader, eight out of nine provincial leaders, all three of its metro mayors and seven out of nine premier candidates are black, and yet Paton asserts the DA’s real leadership is white. In this case “the oppressed” is all those South Africans suffering under the patronage-driven politics of the ANC. SA is being held back by p...
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