DA's glass house shows cracks

The sound you hear in the background is the collapse of the moral high ground from underneath the DA. From an organisation which has cast itself as the conscience of the nation, it is increasingly looking as though its leaders are little different from those in the ANC, whom they perpetually criticise.

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There is a clear mudslinging, whispering campaign underway in the party's upper ranks, seemingly dividing the DA into factions. Just like you-know-who...

It appears as though the two brawlers are our minister of agriculture and DA party leader John Steenhuisen and the recently fired deputy environment minister, Dion George.