LETTER: Peter Bruce is confusing the man with the party, says DA
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that many regular readers would be upset or at least mystified to find Peter Bruce using his column to canvass for the ANC (For the sake of the country, stand with the ANC’s principled people, April 11). I know there are also those critical or at least puzzled that the newspaper’s owners can allow the publication of a column so contrary to the general political culture of the newspaper. But they would be mistaken; the owners deserve praise for the independence they allow their journalists, of which Bruce’s column is a good example. There will be many who will agree that Cyril Ramaphosa deserves support. That makes sense to a lot of democrats. But voting for the ANC is a very different matter. That doesn’t make sense. And aside from the political discontinuity from an ideological point of view, I don’t believe the pragmatic case Bruce makes for voting for the ANC as a way of supporting Ramaphosa is at all persuasive. His main argument is contained in ...
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