SA needs Maimane Former DA leader Mmusi Maimane. Image: ALON SKUY
Mmusi Maimane should be livid being referred to as a failed experiment. The then DA political intelligentsia, namely Tony Leon and Hellen Zille, knew they had to find a suitable “black” face, to front the party.
Maimane, young, intelligent, nonracist, was the perfect candidate but too young and too inexperienced, yet they went ahead and promoted him into the insidious world of dog-eat-dog politics. They set him up to fail as they scurried off, the one to Latin America and the other into political irrelevance.
Maimane has a significant role to play in the broader SA political landscape. He is rapidly maturing into an important leader who can step up and together with Herman Mashaba shake off the rot that the ANC has thrust upon this country.
DA s federal Chairperson Hellen Zille. Photo: Neil McCartney
NATIONAL NEWS - The Democratic Alliance (DA) has announced that it will proceed with it court action to get the full details of the Covid-19 vaccine procurement and roll-out strategy from President Cyril Ramaphosa and Health Minister Zweli Mkhize.
This was confirmed on Wednesday by the party’s federal chair, Hellen Zille.
She said the party was concerned by the lack of transparency shown by the government so far which could lead to massive corruption if details of procurement are not disclosed.
“President Ramaphosa promised that there would be no corruption in particular with the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and of cause five minutes later there was headlines and revelations that there had been huge corruption in PPE’s and various connected politicians and their family members and other networks of the ANC enriching themselves massively as a middleman,” said Zille.