People of Seeisoville township near Kroonstad in the Free State have assured DA leader Helen Zille that they will vote for her party on May 7.
To them the DA is neither a white nor a black party but a party for "blue people".
Zille, who addressed the crowd largely in their home tongue, Sotho, wore a skirt of traditional seshweshwe fabric.
She wore a cap to cover her head, in keeping with the culture . She completed her look with beads around her wrists and neck. And, to loud cheers from the locals, she led the singing of S otho songs.
Zille spoke about the biggest challenge facing the province and the country.
"Poverty is our biggest problem. There is poverty because people do not have jobs and anybody who knows anything about job creation would know that the DA is the only party that has policies that can create jobs.
"There are no white jobs or black jobs, jobs have no colour. Economic growth is for all," she said. "The DA is not for black people, white people or brown people, it is for blue people and blue people are by far the majority. Blue people have beautiful hearts."
Zille told the people of Seeisoville that their tolerance of corruption had to end on May 7. "People who keep voting for a corrupt government must not cry when it does not deliver."
Zille said that ANC secretary- general Gwede Mantashe had described his party as a snake whose head was President Jacob Zuma. "When you vote [on May 7] you have a choice between a snake, which is the ANC, or a ladder which is the DA," she said.
The DA leader in parliament, Lindiwe Mazibuko, said: "The ANC has turned the Free State into an ATM."
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