Neither a national election nor its aftermath have produced a workable growth plan despite poverty and unemployment rising to politically combustible levels — as fiscal capacity to mitigate hardships contracts.

Might an official opposition party sensitive to, but not subservient to, racial politics be just what the country needs? Might the most plausible path towards broad prosperity begin with a freshly reconceived DA channelling its intellectual dynamism to become a shrewd street fighter? ..

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