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DA leader Helen Zille will be visiting communities along the Garden Route on Friday as part of the party's election campaign as efforts to garner support are intensifying with this year's general elections just a few months away.
"The purpose of the visit is to take the Western Cape success story to the people," DA Southern Cape manager Jaco Londt said.
"We [the DA] have accomplished a lot in turning the province around since taking over in 2009."
He said some these successes include the party's "zero tolerance" stance against corruption within the Western Cape government.
"According to the 2011 census residents in the province also have the highest access to water and sanitation in South Africa. About 99% of households have access to running water, 93.4% have access to electricity and 96.9% have toilet facilities."
Londt said the province's unemployment rate was also the lowest in the country. "Over the past four and a half years we [the DA] have also managed to build 50 new schools and three new provincial hospitals."
He added that 78% of the provincial government budget was also redistributed among poor communities, 500 000 children received meals during the week and textbooks were given to every child for every subject.
Londt said her tour of the Garden Route would start at the Knysna taxi rank where she would meet and greet supporters and community members. She will then move on to the Knysna Yacht Club for a public meeting, before traveling to Touwsranten near Wilderness.
Other stops will include Rosedale on the outskirts of George as well as Thembalethu, Grootbrak, Kwanonqaba near Mossel Bay before ending her tour in Albertinia.
The visit follows the announcement on Tuesday that Agang SA leader Mamphela Ramphele will be the DA's presidential candidate in the upcoming general elections and just ahead of the last voter registration period on February 8 and 9.
