Mmusi Maimane: Can his new party become a force in South Africa?
The Interview
BBC
4.3 • 537 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Hardtalk is in Cape Town to speak to Mmusi Maimane, who stood down last October as leader of the main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance. In his first major interview to an international broadcaster since he left the DA, Zeinab Badawi asks Mmusi Maimane what his resignation says about the state of politics in South Africa and his ambitions for the new Movement for One South Africa which he hopes will become a new political force in the country
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, you know, we've had a problem here. |
| 0:02.1 | I knew we were in deep, deep trouble. |
| 0:05.0 | 13 minutes to the moon. |
| 0:07.0 | Season 2, coming soon. |
| 0:09.6 | You're listening to a podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:13.1 | This is Hard Talk with me, Zainab Bedawi. |
| 0:15.8 | Thanks for downloading this edition of the program, and I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:19.7 | Welcome to Hard Talk on the BBC World |
| 0:22.2 | Service with me, Zaynabidawi from Cape Town, South Africa. When the DA, the Democratic Alliance, |
| 0:28.6 | the country's main opposition party, elected its first ever black leader in 2015, many |
| 0:35.1 | believed it was the start of a new era. |
| 0:38.2 | The DA, with its stronghold here in the Cape, |
| 0:40.8 | has traditionally been seen as a party of whites. |
| 0:44.1 | My guest is Musi Maimani, |
| 0:46.1 | who unexpectedly stepped down as leader in October. |
| 0:50.0 | Were his critics right that he could never take race out of South African politics? |
| 0:56.6 | Moosey My Money here in Cape Town, welcome to Hard Talk. |
| 0:59.9 | Thank you very much for having me. |
| 1:01.1 | Why did you step down as leader of the Democratic Alliance in October? |
| 1:05.0 | Well, I thought at that point, the DA and I did not share a common vision. |
| 1:09.1 | At first, I pursued the vision of a non-racial South Africa. |
| 1:12.0 | I believe the deer needed to govern in more places, as Joe Burke, Chuanee, that the deer needed to |
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