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Democratic Alliance leader, John Steenhuisen, said a new chapter would begin on Wednesday when South Africa closes the "ANC chapter" of the country’s history.
Addressing his party’s final rally in Benoni on Sunday, Steenhuisen said 29 May “will go down in history as the most consequential day in South Africa since the birth of our democracy in 1994.”
He said the ANC would lose the outright majority it has abused for decades to subject the people of this country to unemployment, corruption, and misrule.
Steenhuisen said the people of South Africa would write a new chapter by picking up a pen inside a voting booth and using it to “draw their three sacred crosses.”
The opposition leader said the choice one makes will be a serious decision.
He highlighted the successes of DA-run administrations in parts of the country, saying that they are constantly working to make South Africa a better country.
“Today, the DA is making communities safer where we govern, through initiatives like the R1.2 billion LEAP programme that has already taken over 27 000 criminals off the streets in the Western Cape,” he noted, among other achievements.
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In a wide-ranging speech, he said the signing of the NHI bill into law amounted to a “political gimmick” and that his party did not need to use populist stunts.
He warned that DA voters who stayed at home, or if they split the vote among the long list of small parties on the ballot, that the “country’s next chapter could be even uglier than the last.”
The DA leader said the NHI will be implemented, property will be expropriated without compensation, corruption will engulf us, and the economy will collapse.
“It will be Doomsday for South Africa,” he cautioned.
However, he said they have united with their partners inside the Multi-Party Charter, and have pooled together the biggest bloc of opposition votes since 1994.
“Together, we can get to the 50%-plus-one we need to rescue South Africa,” Steenhuisen said.
