Opinion
SA will not be saved by lies or partnerships with the ANC
Our interview with DA leader John Steenhuisen last week generated a lot of debate. We continue the discussion here with two different takes on the subject, and a reaction piece from a former mayor of Johannesburg, Herman Mashaba
07 March 2021 - 00:00
Let me be clear: I do not delight in what has happened to the DA, either before 2019 or afterward. It is bad for democracy and it is bad for future coalition arrangements when the official opposition, to quote Public Service Commission head Somadoda Fikeni, "is busy mutilating itself in a corner, unprovoked"...
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