Zuma the face of DA campaign

08 January 2016 - 02:36 By Kingdom Mabuza

The DA believes it has found the perfect candidate to boost its standing among voters in the municipal elections later this year - Jacob Zuma. The president's smiling face appears on a DA billboard with the words "More people jobless under Zuma's ANC. Vote DA for change that creates jobs."The poster was unveiled in Johannesburg yesterday.ANC spokesman Keith Khoza said: "They want attention and the ANC will never give credibility to their nonsense."DA leader Mmusi Maimane, who presented the billboard, said more than 1.8million people had become unemployed since Zuma became president."That means that every day Zuma remains in office, as he and his uncaring government preside over an ever-worsening economic crisis, 774 more people join the ranks of the jobless."Maimane said that this year citizens would have an opportunity to bring about change."Change that cuts corruption. Change that starts creating jobs. Change that puts South Africa first."He said the DA had decided to start the year by unveiling the Zuma billboard in the centre of Johannesburg as a reminder of how many citizens had lost their jobs and their hopes under his administration.The billboard features a "live ticker" that started at 1842852, the present number of unemployed, and will advance by one every 112 seconds as the jobless total mounts.Said Maimane: "The number you see on this billboard here today is a reminder of the destruction that Jacob Zuma and the ANC have wrought on our economy."He said that whenever the economy needed a shot in the arm the president shot it in the foot.As part of its campaign, Maimane said, the DA would visit the jobless in their communities and record their stories."We will collate these stories to give a voice to the voiceless, culminating in a mass march against unemployment, right here in the centre of Johannesburg, on January 27."..

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