{"id":4251,"date":"2013-04-13T14:08:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T14:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4251"},"modified":"2013-04-13T14:08:49","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T14:08:49","slug":"fear-that-da-will-bring-apartheid-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4251","title":{"rendered":"Fear that DA ‘will bring apartheid back’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Helen Zille<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some South Africans fear that apartheid would return if the Democratic Alliance (DA) led the country, the party’s leader Helen Zille said on Saturday.<\/p>\n

“When I travel around South Africa, it truly shocks me to hear that many<\/p>\n

people think the DA would bring back apartheid if we won an election,” said Zille at a Democratic Alliance campaign in Alexandra, Johannesburg.<\/p>\n

“There are a significant number of people who think the DA was responsible for apartheid, and that Helen Suzman (an apartheid activist who died in 2009) was a member of the ANC.”<\/p>\n

Zille said DA members had to change the false perception people had about her party.<\/p>\n

The campaign’s objective was to educate people about the history of the opposition party.<\/p>\n

Zille gave a detailed background of how the party was formed and what its priorities were.<\/p>\n

She said some DA members were also part of the struggle during apartheid, adding that the party had grown considerably in the last few years.<\/p>\n

“The DA has grown so fast, because we have been able to convince people from many different backgrounds that racial nationalism is a dead-end, and that South Africa can only thrive as an open, opportunity society for all.” – SAPA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some South Africans fear that apartheid would return if the Democratic Alliance (DA) led the country, the party’s leader Helen Zille said on Saturday. “When I travel around South Africa, it truly shocks me to hear that many people think the DA would bring back apartheid if we won an election,” said Zille at a … Continue reading “Fear that DA ‘will bring apartheid back’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[2672,164,97,532],"class_list":["post-4251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-alexandra","tag-apartheid","tag-da","tag-helen-zille"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/zille_helen.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4254,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions\/4254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}