DA believes National Dialogue is a threat to white interests - Montana

MKP parliamentarian says the talkshop will not achieve anything

- By Mawande AmaShabalala

MKP member of parliament Lucky Montana has condemned the National Dialogue as a futile exercise that will achieve nothing, adding that this is the same reason the DA quit.

Montana believes the interests of the DA and its constituency, the white ruling class, are already fully protected through the government of national unity (GNU) arrangement with the ANC.

Therefore, Montana went on, for the DA to participate in the National Dialogue would be tantamount to someone shooting themselves in the foot.

According to Montana, the GNU is a platform for control for the DA and its constituency fronting with the ANC.

The GNU has extended DA's power from the economy into state affairs

In his view, the white ruling class has been hogging the economic power since the dawn of democracy. But through the inclusion of the DA in the GNU, he said, they have extended their stronghold to include state power.

“The DA will never leave the GNU. And the DA will not attend the national dialogue. So, if there’s one party that understands itself, well, the other one is MK, but if there’s one party that understands itself, it’s the DA, not because it represents South Africans or their interests, but because it knows that a small section of the white ruling elite has power,” said Montana.