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The Democratic Alliance's two-day federal congress got underway in Midrand on Saturday - the biggest in the party's history.
More than 2,000 delegates were present at the milestone conference to elect new leadership and to vote on policy and constitutional changes.
The party's provincial chairperson in the Eastern Cape, Yussif Cassim told delegates on Saturday morning that the Bhisho government in particular had collapsed.
He said under a national DA-led government, there would be safe schools, no broken hospitals and the cancer of corruption would be cut.
"It would mean an end to the abuse of power, a permanent end to state capture, and the end of the mafia state", he said.
Cassim said a DA national government would open the economy and let businesses thrive.
"Investments would return, money would flow back into South Africa, our tax yield would increase and Treasury would be healthy again", he said.
