Damned if it did, damned if it didn’t. That was the DA’s predicament when MP and then shadow public enterprises minister Ghaleb Cachalia tweeted that he “will not be silenced” and “Israel is committing genocide”.

This was after his party’s parliamentary caucus had resolved that its MPs should not comment publicly on the Israel-Hamas conflict until the party had formulated an official position on the issue...

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