DA to fight corruption; ANC running scared – Mazibuko
Progress under the ANC government has been too slow and any progress that the ANC made is undermined by its own corruption.
POLOKWANE – Progress under the ANC government has been too slow and any progress that the ANC made is undermined by its own corruption.
This was the message that Lindiwe Mazibuko, the DA’s parliamentary leader had for residents of Polokwane at a DA meeting on Monday.
She said this slow progress and corruption affected every aspect of people’s lives and jeopardised the future of South Africa.
She urged voters to consider all the options that political parties put to them and to make an informed decision about how to use their votes on May 7.
“Every day we read about the most horrific crimes in our communities, including corruption, economic unrest and service delivery protests. This is not the South Africa we were promised and it is not the South Africa envisioned by our Constitution.”
According to Mazibuko, the nationalisation debate in South Africa raged on for over two years until the matter was finally dealt with at the ANC’s conference in Mangaung in 2012.
“Meanwhile, South Africa missed out on two commodity super cycles and lost billions in potential investments that could have created thousands of potential jobs.”
Closer to home, Mazibuko touched on the textbook debacle and the administration process in Limpopo.
“These are exactly the same methods that were employed by the ANC to upgrade president Zuma’s private home at Nkandla to the tune of R246 million of tax payers’ money. If one considers that the money spent on Zuma’s Nkandla residence could have paid for 1 230 nurses, 2 000 RDP houses or three years of study, accommodation and meals for 1 000 university students, then one begins to realise that Zuma’s ANC’s priority is not the development of South Africa,” she said.
The DA will fight this corruption, she promised the audience. “The DA will do everything in our power to ensure those responsible for abusing the people’s money will be brought to justice. The ANC knows this and it is running scared.”
Mazibuko said the attendance of the evening’s meeting was proof that the DA was not a racist party, as alleged by the ANC. “When one looks at the DA’s policies and the work that the DA has done in government, you realise that this could not be further from the truth.”
She explained the DA’s economic and land policies in detail and said the DA wanted to reform the economy in order to give those left out of the economy a chance to participate. “In short, the DA’s economic policy does not try to take one person’s piece of the pie and give it to another. Instead, the DA will essentially ‘bake a bigger pie’. Through a variety of measures, a DA government will grow the economy at 8% and create six million real jobs by 2025.”
