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Original Post Date: 2008-06-28 Time: 16:00:02 Posted By: Jan
A new movement which aims to give coloured people a political home will be launched in the Boland next month.
Under the working title of Die Bruin Belange Inisiatief (the coloured interests initiative) the movement denies it is a political party. But a number of staunch ANC members are interested in joining.
A conference at the Goudini Spa is planned for the middle of July when supporters will draw up a constitution and elect a committee.
For months the founding members have traversed the Western Cape and other parts of the country, speaking to coloured people to start the social transformation movement they feel is necessary if the coloured voice is to be heard.
A number of dissatisfied ANC members have already aligned themselves with the initiative. One of them, Bos Willemse, a former ANC ward councillor based in the Winelands, is now an independent councillor after crossing the floor last September. Willemse said they had spent the past four weeks mobilising across the Western Cape.
“We have spoken to people, we have listened to people, people are totally disillusioned,” he said.
Willemse said it was a forum for all coloured people in which issues of identity, entrepreneurship and social conditions, including education and drug abuse, could be addressed.
According to the minutes of a recent meeting, held at Goudini Spa, where the group was a guest of spa director Professor Danfred Titus, the intiative was launched to highlight the role coloureds had played in SA history, to ensure their continued existence and to chart the way forward for coloured people.
Titus, who heads the ATKV, which promotes Afrikaans culture, is one of the movement leaders.
Willemse said they were expecting about 500 people, intellectuals, working and middle-class coloureds to attend the conference from July 18 to 19, where the intiative would be formalised.
The movement is attracting widespread interest in the Boland and a number of well-known names have been bandied about, including that of Franklin Sonn, but he has denied he is actively involved.
The former rector of the Peninsula Technikon, and former ambassador to the United States, did say, however, that he would like to engage with the initiative, and help it to find access points to advance people.
Sonn said it was time coloured people realised “we are a coloured group in a black community”, and that separate movements and parties were not necessary.
Meanwhile Business Day reported yesterday that leaders of the DA, Inkatha Freedom Party and United Democratic Movement had said they would not be opposed to the idea of the formation of a single opposition political party as an alternative to the ANC.
DA leader Helen Zille punted the idea of a new opposition party last week, saying she would do anything to support the vision of a “non-racial” alternative to the ANC’s “racial nationalism”, including making way for a leader of a new opposition party.