‘They're going to have to risk that base in favour of building a bigger party, as Maimane was trying to do 10 years ago, that has black voters from the middle class and lower middle class,’ says Richard Calland, political commentator, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.
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‘You can pay R30 000 for a bot rather than R300 000 for a labour relations officer. The labour markets are under pressure, I think we're going to see unemployment grow significantly,’ says John Botha, joint CEO at Global Business Solutions.
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‘There’s a conservative group that feels the party has left the runway and veered into another direction. In a sense, they’re trying to pull it back to its basics,’ says Sanusha Naidu, writer and commentator at the Institute for Global Dialogue.
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