News24 deputy politics editor Bongekile Macupe last week undertook a racial bean-counting exercise in the finest tradition of South Africa’s old census bureaucracy by naming all the new leadership figures and mayoral candidates of the Democratic Alliance (DA) and categorising them by race and gender.
It does not matter to Macupe if these people identify primarily with their levels of melanin or the tools between their legs. Macupe took an executive decision in this regard – just like the Nats did.
The DA “remains largely a party of minorities, with a disproportionately white leadership and public face”, writes Macupe. Attracting black support “will remain little more than a dream” unless the white men are put, proportionally, in their place.
The principle of so-called “representivity” is of course textbook Transformationism, even though we are told by many in the News24 stable that they are not in fact a mouthpiece for the ideology of the African National Congress (ANC).
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