Democratic Alliance (DA): Quo Vadis?

Everyone (except the ANC) was over the moon when Mmusi Maimane was elected in May 2015 as Federal Leader of the Democratic Alliance. It was especially the black constituents and the white liberal die-hards of the party that thought this was the Moses that was destined to lead South Africa out of the political desert  dear old Zuma and his ANC created.

But just like the ANC, the new leader (black for the first time) and his black liberals were not very happy with the whites in the party – their vision was to be a black party just like the ANC.

And then it was when the bells tolled for the demise of the DA. Why? Because the DA’s roots go back to the United Party and De Villiers Graaff, through to Helen Suzman, Colin Eglin, Tony Leon and Helen Zille – all white liberals! So, Maimane it seems was not happy with the white burden his party has to carry and in the process alienating the black supporters.

And then his lucky day arrived with Dianne Kholer Barnard and the joke that she was a racist for sharing a FB post that it was better with PW Botha in charge of the country. And like a true Don Quixote on his donkey started to fight the evil white racists – Penny Sparrow, Chris Hart and all the 4 million odd whites.

But, that was his party’s death knell!  What he forgot is that the DA and its predecessors were the traditional home of the liberal whites who were against Apartheid. And now with his ‘war against white racism’ is going to cost him the white conservative and liberal vote The author of this article do not support white racism but what about black racism? Here Maimane is mum on black racism because he cannot afford to alienate black majority voters.  There are many examples on the social media of incidents of black racism but Maimane turned/is turning a blind eye. Remember for what Kholer Barnard was called a racist for? But when Tutu and the Zulu King publicly said that SA was better off during Apartheid than under Zuma and the ANC did Maimane jumped on his donkey to fight these “vicious racists”? NO!!

Maimane is full of confident that the DA will give the ANC a hiding in the Municipal elections of 2016 – yes with the white vote but the conservative whites will see through him.

And what Maimane does not realise is that the majority of black voters will only vote DA to get rid of Zuma. But once Zuma is gone, there will be an influx of black voters back to the ANC!

So DA, with alienating white voters and black voters to go back to the ANC once Zuma is gone, quo vadis? (Where to Then?)

Easy: Get rid  of Maimane and start fighting racism per se!