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DA policy chief Gwen Ngwenya.
- The district attorney says the change in his policy direction has nothing to do with the upcoming election.
- The party’s policy chief, Gwen Ngwenya, says there has been no report or evidence to suggest that the electorate will reject it.
- It also says that the economic justice policy has been in place for two years and that previous leaders changed the party’s position on reparation at least three times.
The district attorney’s chief of policy, Gwen Ngwenya, says there is “zero” evidence that the party’s compensation policy, which leaves out race as a factor, will be rejected at the polls.
Last weekend, the DA held its inaugural policy conference, in which the party said that race should not be considered in transformation policies.
The party re-committed to its values and sealed its earlier rejection of Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE).
Ngwenya told reporters at a virtual press conference on Monday that DA’s policies are based on evidence and also reflect the values and principles enshrined in the party.
She said:
It is almost as if we have to argue against a straw man, no report, nothing put before us to say that this is the sentiment of most South Africans, who feel they have to choose between non-racism and non-racism. repair.
He said that, based on the literature on the subject, most people did not feel that current empowerment policies worked for them and that they responded positively when asked if they would support policies that benefit all South Africans while helping others. the poor.
“There is no evidence that South Africans would not support a policy that is not racial and achieves economic inclusion,” Ngwenya said.
He said the difficult task was to bring this decision to the electorate to explain why it was made. Furthermore, he did not believe that South Africans should be undermined in terms of understanding or support for this approach to reparation.
“The economic justice policy has been at the table for two years … the position on empowerment, I think, changed three times under the last leadership precisely because the party would not have the conversation about what economic policy should be; if we had had it earlier, there would have been clarity earlier, “Ngwenya said.
Regression
The district attorney was criticized for the move, with some arguing that the party was slowly returning to its previous stance under Tony Leon’s leadership, when it was still the Democratic Party, and several others criticizing the decision to assert their position to remove the repair race as regression.
Ngwenywa, explaining the thinking behind the decision in regards to the prosecution’s economic justice policy, said the question that remained after 25 years with the ANC government at the helm was how to address economic exclusion.
She said understanding the drivers of economic exclusion was the answer and that someone’s race was not talking about it.
Ngwenya defended the position of the Prosecutor’s Office, while acknowledging racism and its impact on the country.
“It is important to recognize that racism and race itself need not be linked; race is recognized as a false concept, but just because the belief in race is false does not mean that people would not do terrible things on the basis of of that. false belief, “Ngwenya said.
Using the Holocaust and the burning of witches in South Africa as examples, he said that people did heinous things based on false beliefs.
“Race doesn’t have to be true for people to do absolutely horrible things based on their false beliefs about race,” Ngwenya said.
The DA was expected to hold its election conference in October.
