(Hannes) ZILLE EN DA breek finaal met minderhede, etnisiteit, selfbeskikking, wittes, bruines en Indiërs - Cape Town - The Democratic Alliance is not a party for minorities, party leader Helen Zille said at a federal congress in Cape Town on Saturday. Zille, who was welcomed on stage at the Cape Town International Convention Centre with an ovation and shouts of "long live Helen, long live", said voters were increasingly rejecting "politics of race" and turning to the DA. "More and more South Africans want our politics to be an open contest of ideas and values, rather than a closed circle of conflict between race groups," Zille said. Multiracial She agreed, she said, with a recently expressed view that the DA was "the most multiracial party in the country". What political analysts did not understand, she said, was that the DA could "never be a party just for minorities". "Our entire reason for being is to challenge the notion that ethnic and racial nationalism is the only way South Africans can conduct their politics."
Posted on: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 09:11:11 +0000
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