DA heads into major indaba as policy debates boil over
The elective conference is its biggest yet with 2,000 delegates likely to attend
A raft of policy proposals, ranging from the populist to conservative, as well as a heated debate on diversity are on the cards for the DA as it holds its largest national elective congress to date over the weekend. The official opposition is set to re-elect incumbent leader Mmusi Maimane, but the contest between federal chairman Athol Trollip and Tshwane mayor Solly Msimanga is expected to raise temperatures at the congress. About 2,000 delegates from across the country are set to participate at the congress to be held in Tshwane. A constitutional amendment on "diversity" has led to heated debate in the party and is set to be a divisive matter between conservatives and reformists at the congress. Maimane said at a media briefing on Thursday that the debate centred on fears in the party that quotas could be introduced to effect diversity. However, he said, the DA was focusing more on "input" — in terms of diverse talent recruited into the party — rather than "output", which referred...
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