Pretoria - Vote DA if you want a job. ANC-governed municipalities have been losing jobs, while those governed by the DA have been creating jobs.
This was said by DA leader, Mmusi Maimane, when he addressed residents of the capital at the City Hall on Thursday.
The DA would implement policies that would attract investment to the city and therefore create jobs for the scores of jobless people in the city, especially youths, he said.
Maimane pleaded with rating agencies not to downgrade the country to junk status.
They should give the DA a chance to prove itself once it takes over municipalities after the local government elections on August 3, the party leader said.
“We want to lead South Africa, we want to bring capital to the capital city because so far it is just a city without capital,” he said.
Maimane said under the ANC, corruption and jobs and business opportunities were given to ANC card holders.
This was not on the basis of merit.
“The best policy for job creation is DA policy” - that is why jobs are being created in Cape Town which is being administered by his party, he said.
Maimane compared ANC leaders to dinosaurs, saying they had long forgotten about South Africa.
“These people are so corrupt that they are no longer fighting for South Africa, but with each other.”
Those ANC members who were not aligned to Jacob Zuma were losing out on opportunities, he said.
He urged city residents to vote for the DA mayoral candidate, Solly Msimanga, saying young and vibrant people would take South Africa forward.
Gosiame Monareng, 24, from Soshanguve said that she was going to vote for the DA because she had never been employed since finishing matric.
“I could not further my studies because my parents did not have money to send me to university. The ANC has been giving us false hope for so many years. I will vote for DA and vote for employment,” Monareng said.
Msimanga said people should not be fooled by empty promises, but should look at what the ruling party and the DA have achieved where they govern.
“Look at Cape Town. Infrastruc-ture is being developed and job opportunities created, but in this city businesses are closing down.
“If those governing were not thieves then business would be flowing to this city,” Maimane said.
If the Expanded Public Works Programmes (EPWP) were properly administered, the youth would be working and it would not matter which party they were supporting, he charged.
“We are laying this (blame) at Sputla’s door,” Msimanga said.
If jobs are created for the youth, problems such as the abuse of nyaope would be reduced.
“Job creation would also reduce crime in this city because people will be busy working,” Maimane said.
“We are in Youth Month now and we honour those of 1976, but we cannot say to Jacob Zuma’s generation that there is anything to celebrate for Youth Month,” Maimane said.
The ANC had given birth to a party whose policies could be summarised in three words,”Everything For Free”, he said.
The ANC and EFF were like father and son and he would not be surprised if the leaders met and discussed how they could take people’s money, he said.”A corrupt father cannot produce a non-corrupt son.”
Maimane said the policies of the EFF and ANC were the same and not good for job creation, otherwise jobs would have been created under the ANC.
ANC leaders were a bunch of ”blessers” because they would only give EPWP jobs to people who had ANC membership cards, he said.
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