{"id":8259,"date":"2013-08-01T08:46:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T08:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8259"},"modified":"2013-08-01T08:46:46","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T08:46:46","slug":"anc-racial-tension-in-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8259","title":{"rendered":"ANC: Racial tension in DA"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8260\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8260\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bloomaimane.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8260\" alt=\"Bloom, Maimane\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bloomaimane-300x149.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bloomaimane-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bloomaimane.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bloom, Maimane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"intro\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The DA&#8217;s two Gauteng premier candidates indicated racial tension within the party, the ANC in the province said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The fact that the Democratic Alliance has two premier candidates is a distinctly inauspicious sign that the party is in a state of mess, confusion and leadership squabbles,&#8221; African National Congress Gauteng chairman Dumisa Ntuli claimed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was responding to the news that the Democratic Alliance&#8217;s Gauteng leader Jack Bloom and party spokesman Mmusi Maimane would vie for selection as the party&#8217;s preferred candidate for premier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It is a clear indication that there are deeper fights taking place between blacks and whites because of greed, factional battles and rupture caused [by] lack of policies and identity. We know that the DA is a white party and always want to hides behind a fa\u00e7ade of a black face.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Maimane dismissed Ntuli&#8217;s comments as political rhetoric aimed at diverting public attention from the ANC&#8217;s failings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;They have no delivery record and are losing credibility. All they want to argue is race,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Attempts to portray the DA as a white party contained the implication that the ANC was therefore a black party, Maimane said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The focus on race issues showed the ANC had departed from the non-racial principles of its former president Albert Luthuli, he said. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DA&#8217;s two Gauteng premier candidates indicated racial tension within the party, the ANC in the province said on Wednesday. &#8220;The fact that the Democratic Alliance has two premier candidates is a distinctly inauspicious sign that the party is in a state of mess, confusion and leadership squabbles,&#8221; African National Congress Gauteng chairman Dumisa Ntuli &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8259\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ANC: Racial tension in DA&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[64,97,350,4580,133],"class_list":["post-8259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-anc","tag-da","tag-gauteng","tag-jack-bloom","tag-mmusi-maimane"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bloomaimane.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8259","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=8259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8261,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8259\/revisions\/8261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}