By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YORK (IDN) – Members of the opposition Democratic Alliance are reportedly squabbling over a casual remark by the head of the party, Mmusi Maimane, who observed that white privilege and black poverty were critical issues that needed to be addressed.
“I firmly stand by comments I made on Freedom Day,” Maimane tweeted on May 7. “South Africa remains deeply unequal, with black South Africans locked out of opportunities. We must focus on solving the problem. Liberation of one race is not the enslaving of another - all of us, black & white, must come together to build one South Africa for all.”