Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen says his party is the only “credible and better” alternative for South Africans ahead of the 2024 general elections. 🏛 Parliament
The speech was ahead of Ramaphosa’s fifthSteenhuisen said the country’s trajectory on crime, unemployment, poverty, infrastructure maintenance and investment, on capital and skills flight as well as load shedding was on a downward spiral.
“And that situation is only going to get worse this year, as indefinite high-stage load shedding wreaks havoc on our economy, shuts down businesses, and sends even more people from the workplace to the social grants queue. “You don’t have to be an economist to know that this is an unsustainable situation, and we are fast approaching its breaking point,” he said.Steenhuisen said in order to tackle the country’s challenges, the economy needs to expand beyond the dismal 0.3% forecast last week by the South African Reserve Bank.
He said government needs to find a way to stop skills and businesses from leaving our shores and to bring in new investments. And help a lot more South Africans move into the dignity of a job. “We have no time to waste. But a glance at our performance on every critical metric over the past five years says that we are doing none of these things, and that we are in fact regressing.”DA chief whip Siviwe Gwarube said the party’s ‘true state of the nation’ address was not for electioneering purposes ahead of the general elections next year.
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