AT HOME AND ABROAD: Time for the DA to strategise on rescuing our economy
WITH President Jacob Zuma apparently intent on continuing to drag the ANC down the long road of political decline, it is time for the DA to start devising strategies for rescuing our country from the economic mess we are likely to be in when it finds itself in power after the 2019 national elections.In suggesting this, I do not have in mind some grand new development plan. We have had enough of those. And our political discourse has been polluted by more than enough abstract ideological debates that have nothing to do with the realities of people’s lives.No, we have entered an era of coalition politics, so it is time to start thinking in practical terms of collaboration rather than sterile haggling over yesterday’s ideas.For a start, I believe the DA should start giving serious thought to the merits of establishing a government of national unity should it win the 2019 election. It may well find itself emerging as the strongest party but still short of the 50%-plus-one required to ru...
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