PARTY REPOSITIONING
DA to overhaul economic policies
The party is preparing for its fiercest electoral battle yet — Gauteng in 2019
The DA is set to reposition itself as a party for the majority when it revisits its economic policies at a workshop next week. The party is preparing for its fiercest electoral battle yet as it hopes to win a second province, Gauteng, in the 2019 national election. Gauteng is under the control of the ANC, but the DA has made inroads in the province, running the key metros of Tshwane and Johannesburg in coalition governments. The party also still holds the Midvaal municipality. It narrowly lost Ekurhuleni to an ANC coalition and lost the Mogale City municipality in 2017 only after some EFF councillors defied their party’s orders and voted with the ANC. The two-day workshop will be chaired by former DA leader Tony Leon and will include party leaders, economists and representatives from labour and different sectors of the economy. While transformation will be high on the agenda, a separate workshop on the issue will be held on December 7. On Tuesday, DA chief of staff Geordin Hill-Lewi...
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