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JOHANNESBURG – The DA hails the resolutions adopted on the first day of its political conference as a change from apartheid policies.
The party says it is committed to a fair future and opposes quotas based on race and gender.
The conference concludes on Sunday.
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The DA continues its call for a united South Africa, saying that “each individual is unique and not a racial or gender envoy.”
The party’s manifesto promotes equal opportunities for all.
DA policy chief Gwen Ngwenya said the issue of diversity remains critical within the organization.
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“We come together and we are absolutely committed to the idea of diversity and that diversity means a variety of things.
“The diversity of experiences, of thought, of talent, of knowledge in an organization is incredibly important.
“It is this diversity that acts as a bulwark against any kind of uniformity of thought and rigidity in an organization. What you cannot do is reduce diversity to a question of demographic representativeness and say that there has to be a specific quota of each race. in a particular organization, “he said.
