LETTER: DA needs pragmatic policies the majority of South Africans can relate to
To fixate on one aspect and closely relate it to modern views on race and nonracialism in the face of SA history is politically foolish
David Wolpert perhaps does not understand that the first objective of a political party should be to obtain power in parliament (“Why the anti-DA rhetoric? (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/letters/2020-09-08-letter-why-the-anti-da-rhetoric/)", September 8). The second objective is to stay there.
To obtain and keep power the party must craft a policy structure that appeals to the electorate. As Carol Paton cogently noted in the last three paragraphs of her article, the DA has failed, and continues to fail, in this understanding (“DA now a party for some, not all, as new race policy entrenches denialism”, September 8)...
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