JONATHAN JANSEN | GNU politics may be black and white, but that’s not all there is to SA

While race consumes the discourse on the ANC-DA merger, other areas of South African society are seeing progress

26 June 2024 – 21:30

One of the most fascinating observations about the proposed government of national unity (the concept itself is being strained to the limit) is the unspoken subtext to the negotiations — how it dealt with the problem of race without talking about the problem of race. Here was a black-dominant party (the ANC) deciding to go into co-leadership with a white-dominant party (the DA), at least as far as their face of leadership is concerned…

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