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Build One South Africa's leader Mmusi Maimane has vowed to fix the education system and create new jobs and wealth while delivering basic services.
This and more was promised to Nelson Mandela Bay residents at the Nangoza Jebe Hall in New Brighton on Wednesday evening where he and the Metro's deputy Mayor Khusta Jack launched BOSA in the Province.
Speaking to the audience, Maimane said the Eastern Cape was not performing to the best of its ability despite being the home to political giants.
"The government has failed the people of the Eastern Cape. We are faced with a paradox between the rich history of this province and its current malaise – both under the ANC.'
He said the Eastern Cape currently has the highest unemployment rate in the country at 51.8% and that three-quarters of young people in the province are unemployed.
"How is this acceptable?," he asked.
Maimane added that the province has the highest school dropout rate in the country and that Eastern Cape residents were highly reliant on social grants as their main source of income.
"Nearly half of the 39 municipalities in the Eastern Cape are on the brink of financial collapse and are being investigated by the Hawks for corruption, racking up R3.1bn in irregular expenditure last year."
Maimane said BOSA was willing to fix all of that by putting more money in South African households.
Khusta Jack is also the head of the Abantu Integrity Movement (AIM), which is an affiliate of BOSA, and said he felt Maimane was the right man to take the country forward.
"He is a person that fits the kind of character and the values and integrity that we yearn for," he said.
Wearing his AIM hat, Jack said the new coalition government in Nelson Mandela Bay under DA Mayor Retief Odendaal had achieved what the ANC never could, even if they so wished.
"We have filled 30 000 potholes and fixed 5000 streetlights within 40 days in government in the Metro," said Jack.
“The ANC is a square peg in a round hole.”
