Newsletter| It is “disingenuous for anyone to suggest that the [DA] was out of touch when it came to township issues. I am on the ground every day campaigning in townships.'
The area cuts between two metropolitan boundaries: Ivory Park township in the City of Johannesburg and Tembisa township in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality. It is characterised by numerous informal settlements, a lack of basic service delivery and dilapidated infrastructure.
“I am also part of the party’s leadership. I may not have a title, but as a leader in the party, I am on the ground every day campaigning in townships. It is different campaigning here as one is readily confronted by the indecencies that communities are made to live under,” said Gana. Gana said when he joined the DA, “wearing a DA T-shirt was always met with deep animosity” as township residents always associated the party with “whiteness” and assumed, incorrectly, that voting for the party would automatically result in the country returning to apartheid-type conditions were it to win the elections.
He was referring to a recently released ANC internal poll, which found that 42% of those polled regarded the DA as racist and out of touch with their daily struggles. The animosity that Modise described was readily demonstrated when the small group knocked and opened the gate to one of the houses in the community.Another resident refused the DA members access, saying she was fed-up with politicians.
Gana came prepared for this canvassing role, sporting leather navy blue-and-white Converse All Stars, navy blue jeans and a blue DA branded T-shirt and cap, as he embarked on a door-to-door campaign in ward 133.
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