The DA is a party in deep crisis ahead of its Federal Executive meeting this weekend where a new Federal Executive chairman will be elected. The DA lost quite a bit of support in the last elections. The party appointed a panel to review the performance of the DA in the last general elections in May and Ryan Coetzee and Tony Leon were appointed to lead it. The panel just recommended that party leader Mmusi Maimane should take the blame.
This was actually a no brainer since Maimane’s insistence on hammering on the race narrative and his consistent biased views against the white minority and generally weak leadership are things that were regularly pointed out on social media and were widely accepted to be true, even by ardent DA supporters and members.
Instead of Maimane packing his bags, two white scalps will be offered by the party to the electorate. The party’s elections campaign manager, Jonathan Moakes, and the CEO of the DA, Paul Boughey, have just resigned.
The truth is that the DA was never a party for the white Afrikaners or the brown/coloured population. It was always a party controlled by white English speaking liberals who were stalwarts of the DA’s predecessor parties the DP and PFP. These white English speaking liberals set out to build a black majority liberal party and they thought that their own values would automatically rub off on such a black majority DA. They thought that a black majority DA will still be corruption free. These white English speaking liberals were quite honest and open with what they planned. They openly said that the white or coloured minorities could not possibly matter as these minorities could not possibly produce enough votes to win elections.
Becoming an ANC-lite became party policy because they thought that this is the only way to become a party that could grow enough to take on the ANC. The white liberals thought they could control things from behind the scenes, that their ideology was so superior that a black majority DA would embrace it. They thought that the DA would still remain corruption free if it quickly grows and become majority black.
Well , the corruption did come. Just look at what happened in Tshwane. The black DA members showed that if you hand them an institution they will Africanise it and turn it into a vehicle only for their own advancement, that values and principles and minority rights will quickly fly out the window.
Afrikaners and the brown/coloured population will do well to remember that they never had anyone in the DA that would fight for Afrikaner culture and minority rights. The DA just wanted their votes. Afrikaners and minorities in general will have to come together and support a party fighting for minority rights. The English speaking liberals of the DA and the black caucus of the DA have one thing in common- they are not concerned with minority rights and they don’t even want your vote that badly.
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