2019 ELECTIONS: ‘Hou die Wes-Kaap blou’ — DA’s message at final metro rally By Suné Payne SunePayne
At the Hillsong Church in Century City, Cape Town, on Workers’ Day, more than 1,000 Democratic Alliance supporters gathered for the Western Cape metro region’s final election rally to hear members of the provincial leadership and the party leader tell them to keep the Western Cape blue.hou die EFF en ANC uit
In the 2014 national and provincial elections the DA won 59% of the provincial vote and extended its governance after gaining the province in 2009 from the ANC. The party’s provincial leader, Bonginkosi Madikizela, switched focus to Workers’ Day. He said the party was “working hard to ensure that those that are not working will be able to find a job”.
When it was Winde’s turn to speak, the crowd greeted him with much applause as he spoke about the DA’s punting of rail and policing control for the province.I will fight for a provincial police service run by the people of the Western Cape, for the people of the Western Cape. I will fight for a provincial train service run by the people of the Western Cape, for the people of the Western Cape,” said Winde.
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