Yesterday, the DA launched its manifesto ahead of the 2019 elections. It is a blueprint for delivering real change in SA, for getting our economy growing and producing jobs. Job-creating economic growth is the quickest, most effective way to reduce poverty and inequality.
This year, South Africans face a choice between the corrupt, old, disorderly ANC and the honest, modern and orderly DA. The DA can deliver to the whole country what we have delivered in the Western Cape, which accounted for half of net job creation in the past year (95,000 out of 188,000 jobs, Q3 2017 - Q3 2018), and where broad unemployment (23%) is 14 percentage points lower than the national average (37%).
The DA strives to provide everyone with access to opportunities. For example, the Western Cape has the highest percentage of households living within 30 minutes of a health facility and we retain by far the most children in school between grades 10 and matric (64%, whereas no other province retains above 50%).
In stark contrast, the ANC's approach has been to enrich and re-enrich a connected elite at the expense of the rest. This has divided our nation into haves and have-nots and led to the stagnant economy and divisive society we see today. The DA's approach will build one South Africa for all...