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DA leader, John Steenhuisen, called on South Africans to trust his vision of a Moonshot Pact to prevent what he said would be a "doomsday scenario" if the ANC or EFF got into the Union Buildings after the 2024 elections.
The opposition leader concluded a two-day visit to the Eastern Cape on Tuesday, following public meetings with communities and stakeholders in the Ndlambe Municipality.
He traversed Alexandria, Kenton-on-Sea, and Port Alfred on Monday, meeting residents, business owners, and farmers, to discuss a host of issues, including his Moonshot Pact, which seeks to counter any coalition between the ANC and the EFF after next year's election.
Steenhuisen was in Makhanda on Tuesday and also addressed a street meeting in Alicedale in the afternoon.
In an audio statement afterward, he said the past two days had been engaging and encouraging, despite the huge service delivery problems in local municipalities in the Eastern Cape.
Steenhuisen spoke of the hope and enthusiasm among the people that a future can be built, based on a common set of values and principles.
"Everywhere I've gone people have been very excited about the Moonshot Pact and about the opportunity to end the squabbling and division among the opposition and for us to sit around the table and come up with a plan to save South Africa from the doomsday scenarios that await us of the ANC or the EFF get into the Union Buildings," the opposition leader said.
Steenhuisen said his core message was while there are huge backlogs and challenges in the country, "we can, by working together, overcome them."
"No matter how insurmountable it may seem, we've got to put our trust in the Moonshot," he said.
"We've got to trust South Africans to come together and to build a common consensus about a way to unshackle us from the shackles of the ANC's corruption, maladministration, and care less attitude to government that leaves our people languishing in poverty and locked out opportunity and jobs."
