Undercurrents are swirling within DA

LAST week’s “Suspension of Zille leads to gloom in DA ranks” refers.

Dick Jones says, “It was a great relief to learn that the DA hierarchy had managed to reach a compromise, because an exodus of white supporters would have led to the total collapse of the party – and the eventual ruination of our beloved South Africa”. Therein lies my concern. Since 1994, the intonation of the liberal democratic movement had to adapt and in many ways conform to an order many whites were not accustomed to.

To say it is the whites who determine the success of the DA is as fallacious as it is a stark reminder to us all that there are elements within the DA who believe in their invincibility from a race perspective.

The Zille tweet reflected an uncanny but real unease in a party that purports to encompass non-racialism or multi-racialism, whichever applies, as within the ranks dissension, apprehension and partitions begin to emerge.

As an opposition party desperate to govern, the DA, exploited political expediency in forming an unholy alliance with the EFF, to temporarily unseat the ANC in some metros, this desperation will be outed come 2019. So while the DA may have temporarily achieved a painfully reluctant truce with two of its highest protagonists, the undercurrent is churning a groundswell.

I would be loath to accept that an exodus of white supporters would have led to the collapse of the DA. – Letter shortened