New DA interim leader John Steenhuisen’s elevated status within SA’s political establishment is to be welcomed, but for the DA to become truly relevant to the future wellbeing of our country he will need to offer far more than his considerable oratorical skills and profound common sense.
He and his colleagues need to define a strategy that will enable the DA to be the catalyst that shakes the ANC-led government out of its stagnant and impotent state and replaces it with a majority government of national unity that can actually stand up to corruption, incompetence, divisive intraparty factions and destructive trade unions. A government that can implement policies everyone knows do really work. In its current format the DA cannot hope to be that majority government...
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