The party's provincial leader has warned the ruling party not to call the DA incompetent in the Western Cape, since similar numbers will inevitably afflict other provinces, including Gauteng.
Democratic Alliance Western Cape provincial leader Bonginkosi Madikizela during a media briefing on September 19, 2018 in Cape Town. Picture: Gallo Images / Netwerk24 / Jaco Marais
DA Western Cape leader Bongikosi Madikizela said they “wholeheartedly support DA leader John Steenhuisen’s, and many other patriotic South Africans’, call for our government to end the hard lockdown”. He said fear was being used to control people and the “ANC has found a new way to fulfil its long-time wish to control the people of this country”.
The provincial leader said the basis to determine whether one could end a lockdown was not one’s readiness to respond, nor the number of infections. “The money we are using to fund this pandemic will soon run out, and we can’t keep on borrowing money if we can’t demonstrate the ability to pay it back. Without economic activities, we will not only lose lives because of hunger and poverty, but we will also lose our sovereignty as a country if we can’t pay our debt.
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