HELEN ZILLE: Business Day, not the DA, is the real loser

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Selective demonisation in your editorial makes your newspaper the one which has lost

We all know apartheid was a crime against humanity. That is old news and many of us did as much as we could to fight it when it mattered.

Of course, apartheid’s legacy did not die with it. It was up to the ANC government, with its massive popular mandate, to address this effectively. Instead, the ANC’s cadre deployment policy produced a captured, corrupt and criminal state that is rapidly deindustrialising our country through institutional and infrastructural destruction.

And in its editorial Business Day trumpeted “Malema wins” because of a single ambiguous tweet from Ghaleb Cachalia and a confined debate that followed on Twitter when the DA’s contesting electoral factions and a few hundred bots and sock-puppets took the gap and weaponised it .

 

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Yeah, it seemed BD were celebrating an EFF victory. The article itself had nothing to do with business. Who's their editor there?

Yes ZilleTweets helenzille , there are double standards, but why isn't Our_DA up for the challenge of meeting it? Is it not possible to remain true to one's principles without offending the electorate? Why not strive for humbled perfection, principled based popularity?

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