PA’s McKenzie says he’s SA's best bet to deal with crime: 'I was born for a time like this'
The PA leader, who served time for armed robbery, has taken a hard stance on criminality, vowing again to supporters that he would put a stop to it.
FILE: PA leader Gayton McKenzie. Picture: Katlego Jiyane/Eyewitness News
CAPE TOWN - Patriotic Alliance (PA) leader and ex-convict, Gayton McKenzie, said he was the best bet to deal with the country’s rampant crime, as the party gears up to contest the general elections.
McKenzie, who served time for armed robbery, has since rebranded from a hardened criminal to taking a hard stance on criminality.
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He said party supporters had given him a second chance when everybody else had written him off as a criminal.
Speaking at the party’s rally at the Athlone Stadium on Saturday, McKenzie again vowed to put a stop to crime.
"Under my regime, I'm going to stop crime. I look at Cyril Ramaphosa, I look at [Julius] Malema, I look at John Steenhuisen, and I don't see anyone amongst them that can take on the truck mafia, the petrol mafia, the drug mafia - I was born for a time like this."
In the buildup to the hotly contested elections, McKenzie said the PA also planned to rescue South Africans from the governing African National Congress (ANC), which he claimed plunged millions of citizens into poverty.
"Some people come to me and say the death penalty is inhumane. What is inhumane is our children dying on the Cape Flats, it is the farmers dying, it is the people being shot for a cellphone - that is inhumane."