DA Has An ‘Absolute Obligation’ To Reassure Nation Of Its Commitment To Non-Racialism – Thabo Mbeki

Riyaz Patel

Former president Thabo Mbeki says consistent with the Constitution, all South Africa’s registered political formations have an “absolute obligation” to practically contribute to the national effort to build a non-racial country.

Mbeki’s comments are in reaction to the recent upheavals in the DA, which, he understands to be underpinned by the continuing challenge of racism in the country.

The former president said It would be a matter of the “greatest concern if it were in fact true that our country’s Official Opposition, the DA, is going through a leadership crisis because of a hegemonic ascendance of a racist tendency which seeks to assert policies to that end, thus to sustain colonial and apartheid social relations.”

Mbeki said South Africans and the constitutional order will gain absolutely nothing from any “negative movement in any of