The Big Read: DA's Black Hope must act

Mmusi Maimane faces a key moment in his leadership of the DA- he has to throw Dianne Kohler Barnard under the bus. He has to do it soon, and ruthlessly, otherwise it is he and the DA who will reap the negative consequences of her actions.Everything about Maimane's rise to the top is about race.Those who pushed him forward did it because of the race issues in the DA and the belief that he can turn around the persistent association of the party with our apartheid history.