“Forget about all the small parties that don’t just have the numbers to properly represent you, and certainly don’t have the numbers to keep the ANC or EFF out,” said Steenhuisen.
Johannesburg – DA leader John Steenhuisen has styled his party as the only alternative party which would “properly manage dysfunctional municipalities” and deliver services to distraught communities of South Africa.
“Forget about brand new parties that spring up before every single election like a field of overnight mushrooms, and then fade away just as quickly afterwards. Steenhuisen was adamant that elections were about service delivery, saying it was about infrastructure maintenance, and the preservation of public funds and to make sure that funds were well spent.
“That is not some scary prediction for one day in the future. That has already happened in dozens of municipalities across the country. He said that if we wanted to save these places, politicians had to be honest about what was wrong with them, saying “we have to find a common thread that runs through all these failing towns and cities, a thread that we can identify as being responsible for this decay.”
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