Lucas Ntyintyane demonstrates a worrying misunderstanding of the roles of party and state in a constitutional democracy and exposes himself as a clear statist who would seek to entrench executive control while stifling accountability and parliamentary oversight in SA (“Alan Winde has what it takes to lead DA (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/letters/2020-05-12-letter-alan-winde-has-what-it-takes-to-lead-da/)”, May 12).
The leader of the official opposition has a responsibility to carry out rigorous oversight over the executive, regardless of who that person is. This involves monitoring government at all times and critiquing decisions that are not made in the interests of our country and its people. Expecting John Steenhuisen to be more like Alan Winde is akin to asking a prosecutor to be more like the judge in a court case. ..
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