Top 6 Raenette Taljaard Quotes

On the surface, ours was an amicable conversation, but I could feel the latent anger in his seven-page hand-written let.”

I left feeling somewhat uneasy about his defensive tone and his choice of words.

I was deeply averse to engaging in war-like posturing with ANC colleagues whose intentions and motivations were similar to my mine — although we held widely divergent views on how best to achieve our common goals,”

“It was not only that the tone of South African politics had altered and become ever more acrimonious, but that I could not ignore how ill at ease I felt in representing the DA.

It would mean unquestioning loyalty and assumed support for his positions in debates and internal caucus votes — something I was not able to give at all times

every single strategy meeting continued to be held in the same cloistered confines of white male comfort.