"I have great respect for Helen Suzman and her accomplishments. I also understand that she sees the DA as part of her legacy and that is why it is so difficult for her to abandon them. However, the DA is no longer part of that legacy of liberal ideas and values. They have abandoned everything Helen represented. Ryan Coetzee, their strategist, is out of control and alienating civilized people. Their campaign is underhand and right wing. More and more they behave like the old National Party. As for Suzman's comments on my initiative being unsustainable, this is not true. Helen Suzman's PFP was made up of a tiny support base, a minority of a minority of voters. The whole Prog Party together then would not account for much than 1% of today's vote. She was a lone voice. Nobody can recall anyone in her political team except her."