LETTER: Helen Zille blind to race only when it suits her
SA consists of diverse racial communities each with their own needs
Rightly or wrongly, there are South Africans who believe the DA’s perceived colour-blind philosophy was largely architected by Helen Zille, and that she promoted the rejection of multiracialism in favour of nonracialism. Indeed, DA policy states that “nonracialism is the rejection of race as a way to categorise people”.
It is therefore a bit confusing in her recent article. Zille, in a dubious attempt to put a positive spin on the DA’s performance in the recent by-elections, seems to differentiate between black and white wards and comments on the ANC’s decline in wards where the “majority of voters are black” (“Biased media fails to reflect DA’s growth (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/2021-05-26-helen-zille-biased-media-fails-to-reflect-das-growth/)”, May 26). This is surely some sort of racial classification or categorisation and is, on the face of it, contrary to the DA’s stated policy on race and contributes to the confusion...
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