January 2009 | Vol 1 | Issue 02
New DA party logo features lots of white, no black
JOHANNESBURG. The newly relaunched Democratic Alliance, desperate to shake off its image as a party for whites, says its new logo is a reflection of how much it has transformed. The logo was revealed on the weekend and features a snow-white sun streaming rays of white light down on a stylized South African landscape that contains no black whatsoever.
The logo's designer, Gladys Riefenstahl, 84, of Squirrel Nutkin Lodge in Brakpan's Casa Blanca Golf and Security Estate, said the dominant white sun and complete absence of black were not indicative of any kind of unconscious racism in herself or the party.
"Some of my best friends use black in their designs," she told media this morning.
"It's a lovely vibrant colour, with great rhythm."
However, she said, black "tended to overwhelm whatever it was introduced to".
The new logo replaces the party's previous motif, which featured a golden sun rising over a blue ocean symbolizing the aspiration of many DA voters to seek a new dawn overseas.
The party confirmed that it will still be known as the Democratic Alliance, but refused to reveal what it was allied with, denying that it had any power-sharing arrangement with either the defunct National Party or its other primary power base, the Arthur Murray School of Dance.
Meanwhile the DA has praised local organizers at its conference for averting a repeat of the unpleasant scenes that have dogged meetings of the newly formed Congress of the People, where ANC members have been accused of breaking up gatherings and intimidating speakers.
According to security consultant Darrel Sundance-Kidd only a handful of ANC protesters arrived, the rest having been diverted by a rumour of a 25%-off sale at Markham.
However, he said, those who did arrive outside the conference centre were "efficiently guided to an alternate venue" by trailing life-size cardboard cutouts of Mosiuoa Lekota and Mbhazima Shilowa on string behind a car.
He said that most of the protesters had given up after several dozen kilometers, by which time they had run out of plastic chairs to throw at the cutouts.
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JOHANNESBURG. The newly relaunched Democratic Alliance, desperate to shake off its image as a party for whites, says its new logo is a reflection of how much it has transformed. The logo was revealed on the weekend and features a snow-white sun streaming rays of white light down on a stylized South African landscape that contains no black whatsoever.
The logo's designer, Gladys Riefenstahl, 84, of Squirrel Nutkin Lodge in Brakpan's Casa Blanca Golf and Security Estate, said the dominant white sun and complete absence of black were not indicative of any kind of unconscious racism in herself or the party.
"Some of my best friends use black in their designs," she told media this morning.
"It's a lovely vibrant colour, with great rhythm."
However, she said, black "tended to overwhelm whatever it was introduced to".
The new logo replaces the party's previous motif, which featured a golden sun rising over a blue ocean symbolizing the aspiration of many DA voters to seek a new dawn overseas.
The party confirmed that it will still be known as the Democratic Alliance, but refused to reveal what it was allied with, denying that it had any power-sharing arrangement with either the defunct National Party or its other primary power base, the Arthur Murray School of Dance.
Meanwhile the DA has praised local organizers at its conference for averting a repeat of the unpleasant scenes that have dogged meetings of the newly formed Congress of the People, where ANC members have been accused of breaking up gatherings and intimidating speakers.
According to security consultant Darrel Sundance-Kidd only a handful of ANC protesters arrived, the rest having been diverted by a rumour of a 25%-off sale at Markham.
However, he said, those who did arrive outside the conference centre were "efficiently guided to an alternate venue" by trailing life-size cardboard cutouts of Mosiuoa Lekota and Mbhazima Shilowa on string behind a car.
He said that most of the protesters had given up after several dozen kilometers, by which time they had run out of plastic chairs to throw at the cutouts.
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300 Minstrels in hospital after street carnival crushed by rush hour traffic -
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