ANC'S RESPONSE TO DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S INFANTILE POLITICAL DISORDER
30 May 2000
The Democratic Party's rabid concern over the ANC's growing strength, as stated in their latest campaign slogan: "ANC without opposition equals Zimbabwe," is a product and manifestation of the party's deep-seated infantile political disorder, threadbare in the extreme.
The DP claims it wants to be a strong opposition. The truth of the matter is that the DP wants to be the governing party in order to roll back the gains the people of South Africa and Zimbabwe have fought for, and achieved.
It should not be surprising for the DP to take such a stand, considering that those who fought to achieve those gains were up against the apartheid regime which was buttressed by the South African Defence Force, that had some of the current DP leaders as active soldiers.
While the DP claims that ANC without opposition equals Zimbabwe what they conveniently fail to say is that DP in government equals Rhodesia. The schizophrenic behaviour of the DP in their support of white farmers in Zimbabbwe, to the exclusion of everyone else, can be equated to that of a child burning down a house in order to live in it.