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“Losing” more black leaders shows a greater concern with keeping the party as a base for white interests than growing it to a possible future government. (Paul Botes/M&G)
COUNTRY

South Africa’s liberals are failing to wrap their heads around race

The white liberal establishment, both inside and outside the DA, holds onto its race-blindness by distorting the South African idea of “non-racialism”

  • Christi Van Der
  • Westhuizen 1
6 min read
Missed opportunity: Fewer than expected ANC voters turned out at the party’s manifesto launch. A similar scenario played out at polling stations.
ABORTIONS

Deaths from unsafe abortions are rising

The stigmatisation of abortion continues, also at the highest levels of government. Plus, illegal abortion providers have proliferated.

  • Christi Van Der
  • Westhuizen 1
6 min read