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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.<\/em><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n For the DA to take charge of the country, Geordin Hill-Lewis, who…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":230433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,4380,8992,36706,6867,4706,724,257,7024,5069,254,5079],"class_list":["post-230432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-appeal","tag-broaden","tag-man","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-party","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-white"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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