LETTER: Alan Winde has what it takes to lead DA
The Western Cape premier is demonstrating calm leadership during the Covid-19 crisis
The EFF accuses President Cyril Ramaphosa of caring more about the economy than the health of the people. The DA criticises him for killing the economy over a mere virus that kills fewer people than TB and car accidents. In other words, Ramaphosa can’t win — he is either a lackey of the Stellenbosch mafia or is indirectly assisting the EFF’s sponsor, who is allegedly benefiting from the tobacco ban.
The opposition parties appear to be struggling to find relevance in the midst of Covid-19. DA leader John Steenhuisen is sounding more like US President Donald Trump and other right-wing politicians such as Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro by the day (“Lockdown, not virus, behind economic crisis”, May 8). On March 23, Trump said: “We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself. We cannot turn the economy off.”..
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