Namibia: Can This Man Broaden the Appeal of a South African Party Seen By Some As ‘Too White’?

The new leader of South Africa’s second-largest party has to solve a problem that none of his three immediate predecessors were able to crack: how to extend the Democratic Alliance’s popularity beyond its core support mostly made up of white people and other racial minorities.

Despite the advent of the multi-ethnic “Rainbow Nation” and the end of the racist apartheid system in 1994, South Africa remains fractured on racial lines.

For the DA to take charge of the country, Geordin Hill-Lewis, who…