DA
Re-elected DA leader John Steenhuisen said 2024 would be the party’s “Moonshot Election” saying the official opposition had taken a “giant leap forward” heading to the next year's elections.
Steenhuisen saw off the challenge of former Johannesburg mayor, Dr Mpho Phalatse, for the leadership position at the DA’s elective conference this weekend.
In a statement after being reelected, Steenhuisne said while the term “Moonshot” originally meant “long shot,” it’s increasingly being used to describe a monumental effort and a lofty goal – in other words, a giant leap forward.
“A leap like ensuring that the DA leads national government in 2024,” he said.
Steenhuisen said since 2019, they have worked on the first phase of that project.
“This phase was all about stabilising and fixing the DA so that we could get back to winning ways, on our way to taking the Moonshot,” he said.
Steenhuisen said it was about rebuilding internal cohesion, discipline, systems, and policy.
“The DA that emerges from this Congress is more united and more confident about the party’s future than at any time I can remember. We have, indeed, built a strong DA,” he said.
