LETTER: ‘White lived experience’ also needs to get past colour
The DA is far from perfect, but is better than any alternative on offer
Dr Lucas Ntyintyane’s recent letter revealed to me that I had misread the good doctor in the past (Why the DA will not win my vote (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/letters/2020-02-09-letter-why-the-da-will-not-win-my-vote/), February 9).
I had always admired the way he appeared to have got past his “lived black experience”, as he calls it, and got on with life. Coming from a “white lived experience”, having cast my first vote for the Progressive Party in 1959, I always wanted my country to get past colour, as I saw the goal of Desmond Tutu’s Rainbow Nation to be. That was my ideal, but it was not to be...
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