Build One South Africa (BOSA) leader, Mmusi Maimane described Wednesday’s elections as “historic.”
Immediately after casting his vote at the Presbyterian Church, Dobsonville, Maimane told the media that it is a new chance for people to choose a new future for South Africa and that people should use that opportunity to usher in change.
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He said, “To contest for Building One South Africa, to fight for the next transition in this country, there can never be a greater moment than this one and I feel in myself a deep sense of humanity as well as a sense of nervousness about what all of this could mean.
“But ultimately the confidence to know that we will be part of the generation that will bring change in our nation.”
A few locals spoke to Maimane and shared some of the problems they currently face as Dobsonville residents.
“Some people are telling me right here, right now that they haven’t had electricity, in certain places there is no water, and the unemployment rate is also high in these communities,” said Maimane.
Speaking to the media outside the voting station, Irene Moletsane said she wish for a better South Africa after these elections.
“I wish that we could have a better South Africa. Johannesburg must get back to where it was before. It must be clean, those flats and buildings that are in Johannesburg we must do something about them and also people must get jobs,” she said.
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Another Dobsenville resident, Yvonne Memetsi who also spoke to the media said these elections remind her of the ones that were held in 1994.
“There are a number of things that are not done right in our country and I wish we can fix them so that things can go according to order, and also our children must be employed,” said Memetsi.
