LETTER: Maimane a worthy failure in Zille’s Arthurian ‘test’
The DA leader has not tainted himself with many of the potential traps he could have fallen into
Mark van Hoogstraaten’s letter in praise of the DA, and especially of Mmusi Maimane, was a breath of fresh air (“DA Leader is Visionary,” May 21). I could not agree more. It seems Helen Zille (admittedly not unfamiliar with the schoolmistress approach) set an Arthurian “test” for Maimane, which he has absolutely failed. Was it whether he entertains seriously delinquent ministers or acquiesced for years in Jacob Zuma’s wrecking-ball approach to government? Well, no. Perhaps he accepted dubious donations from Bosasa? Or maybe he has undertaken to undermine the concept of private property? No, it appears not any of that heavy stuff either. What it seems he did was to remain silent when Zille tweeted something demonstrably true (in fact) on Twitter. Elsewhere, Tom Eaton (“Good Politics Looks Like a Terrible Story,” May 21) reveals a new political science that deals with deep cancer in a governing party’s behaviour: don’t hope for the democratic process to engineer a reversion to good g...
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