'Elect a DA outright majority or face consequences of coalition corruption': Steenhuisen warns WC DA voters
During the party's provincial manifesto launch on Saturday, Steenhuisen also questioned why 'smaller parties' were campaigning in a 'well-run' Western Cape, instead of focusing on the 'real enemy of progress, the ANC.'
DA leader John Steenhuisen at the provincial manifesto launch in Paarl on 6 April 2024. Picture: X/@Our_DA
CAPE TOWN - Democratic Alliance (DA) leader, John Steenhuisen urged party supporters to protect the Western Cape from what he calls the "doomsday coalition".
Steenhuisen addressed hundreds of supporters gathered at the Huguenot Hall in Paarl on Saturday where the provincial manifesto was launched.
He said partnerships between parties like the African National Congress (ANC), the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and the Patriotic Alliance (PA) should be kept out of the province.
Calling parties like the PA, Rise Mzansi and GOOD "political mercenaries" Steenhuisen questioned why they were campaigning in the Western Cape, which he said was “well run” instead of other provinces.
“Why are they coming here? Why aren’t they focusing on the real enemy of progress in South Africa, which is the ANC?”
Steenhuisen said Western Cape residents can either re-elect the DA or face the consequences of a "coalition of corruption".
"You can either elect a DA outright majority in the Western Cape, or you will get a coalition of corruption between the ANC, the EFF and the PA, that will destroy this province just like it has done to the rest of the country."
The DA leader added that a vote for the party in the province is a triple win.
“A vote for the DA in the Western Cape is a vote to secure an increased majority to carry on the work that we've been doing. For a new national government, to keep the doomsday coalition between the ANC and EFF out."
Meanwhile, Western Cape Premier Alan Winde – who is also the party’s premier candidate in the province made seven pledges as part of the DA's manifesto.
Winde said the party will keep delivering to the people of the Western Cape.
"We will create 800,000 new job opportunities, we will fight crime with 1, 300 law enforcement officers, rural safety units and K-9 units, we will cut load shedding by four stages, we will push for control of policing, transport and the ports.”
Winde said the DA will also build more schools and deliver quality education for all.
"We will deliver a world-class public health service, and we will run a clean innovative government that prioritises the poor, the Western Cape was rescued from the ANC back in 2009, and in that time the DA has shown the rest of South Africa that it is possible to build a government that works."