DA looking at party’s overall ‘diversification’

01 October 2016 - 16:45 By TMG Digital

The Democratic Alliance is focusing on the overall diversification of the party‚ a primary strategic objective ahead of the 2019 general elections‚ DA leader Mmusi Maimane says. Speaking after a two-day meeting of the DA’s federal executive (FedEx)‚ Maimane said it was “vitally important to give effect to the objectives and commitments set out in the race speech I delivered earlier this year”. “In the coming months‚ the party will finalise a diversity plan that will require DA structures — from branch level to national level - to set targets for the recruitment and development of excellent black candidates for public office. These targets‚ and the progress made towards achieving them‚ will be reviewed regularly by FedEx‚” Maimane said...

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