DA refutes claims majority of South Africans cannot relate with its election manifesto

JOHANNESBURG - The Democratic Alliance’s (DA’s) Francois Rodgers refuted suggestions that the majority of South Africans did not relate to its election manifesto.

On Saturday, DA leader John Steenhuisen delivered the party’s election manifesto at the Union Buildings in Pretoria ahead of upcoming polls.

Steenhuisen assured supporters that load shedding, poverty and unemployment among other issues would be resolved under a national DA-administration.

Before former DA caucus leader and erstwhile mayor in Johannesburg Mpho Phalatse resigned as a councillor; one of her biggest concerns was the electorate’s trust deficit.

But as the elections fast approach, Rodgers said the party’s manifesto spoke to every South African.

“If people are really concerned about jobs, about the economy, about healthcare, about education, about the seven points that John [Steenhuisen] mentioned - then it [the manifesto] must resonate with them.”

The party’s leader in Gauteng Solly Msimanga echoed these sentiments.

“We want an alternative. We want something that is beyond the ANC [African National Congress], we don’t want to continue with what the ANC has been doing.” 

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