I am pleased to launch the 2013 Democratic Alliance Students Organisation (DASO) poster campaign. Following in the wake of the controversial but highly successful 2012 campaign that  featured an embracing interracial couple and the tagline ‘In our future you wouldn’t look twice’, this year DASO set out to further expand the organisation’s vision for the [...]

Note to editors, this is the January/February edition of DA Youth Leader Makashule Gana’s monthly newsletter, Mzansi Today. Fellow Democrats, Welcome to the year 2013. In the early 2000s Metro FM ran a campaign titled ‘What Makes you Black?’ It went something like, “What makes you black? Is it the colour of your skin? Your [...]

DASO is deeply concerned about the outbreak of violence at the University of Fort Hare (see Daily Dispatch report). The 90% increase in residence fees is unacceptable as most of the students are from poor family backgrounds. DASO also objects to the shocking living conditions of the students. Four students cannot be expected to share [...]

In another case of anti-democratic bullying by ANC activists, I was barred from addressing students at Wits university today. The ANCYL-dominated Student Representative Council (SRC) barred me, and representatives from the Democratic Alliance Students’ Organisation (DASO), from addressing students on a public platform. This occurred only minutes after the Progressive Youth Alliance (an ANCYL/YCL alliance) [...]