ANC determined to block better services
HOPE and a sense of belonging has always been a key hallmark of the DA's offering to residents, and is reflected in the fact that where the DA governs, more jobs are created, the government spends peoples' money on services for all and receives clean audits and national and international accolades where it governs.
The fact is that by addressing challenges in administrations where it governs, and innovating across a range of services, DA governments are already improving services for all, creating safer communities, spending more on underground infrastructure and rolling out more affordable, convenient and safer public transport, to name but a few.
There's a lot of work which still needs to be done, but the DA is clearly on the right track to improve service delivery, and granting more powers to a functional provincial and local government will improve things even more.
But this is an election year, and parties which have failed to deliver anything more than empty promises are determined to divide people as they seek to maintain their relevance.
So it was no surprise to hear the ANC lies about the DA-sponsored Provincial Powers Bill. Instead of welcoming efforts to devolve power over safety and security, electricity, trade, ports and public transport to capable local and provincial governments, these tired old politicians who once called themselves liberators, are determined to block efforts to provide better services to more people.
They have nothing else to offer South Africa, as illustrated by their plunging levels of support and the number of former leaders leaving to set up new parties.
The DA deserves to be congratulated for embracing the politics of hope and belonging and delivering ever improving services to more and more people.
The elections this year will provide another opportunity to more people to support the DA, which builds for all South Africans, and to reject tired, old politicians who still cling to 1960s ideologies which have failed around the world.