Wearing a DA T-shirt on an early-morning run in Cape Town, it felt as if I was receiving looks of friendly sympathy from others out on road, the sort of of looks you get as the patron saint of lost causes. This party has suffered depth-charge damage from its divisions.

If there’s any benefit to be had out of the current situation, it is worth considering the major area of division: that race needs to be used as the tiller in the direction of the state...

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