Maimane: ‘I have a dream of putting a job in every home’

The main opposition party revealed their election promises at the Rand Stadium in Johannesburg on Saturday, with thousands of DA members attending the event.

“I have a dream of putting a job in every home,” said Maimane in his keynote address.

“The freedom and dignity that an income brings is hard to describe to someone who has never had to worry about food. A job in the home will mean that no one has to go hungry ever again.”

The country’s official unemployment rate sits at 27.1%. 

“It cannot be that four out of every ten South African households do not have a single income. If we can put at least one job in every home, it will completely transform these households,” added Maimane. 

Top of the DA’s manifesto document is the controversial issue of borders and immigration.

The party has vowed to tighten what it describes as the county’s porous borders.

“I want our country to have secure borders. I want to make it easy for everyone who wants to come here legally, but impossible for those who want to enter illegally,” Maimane said.

The crowd was also entertained by various hip hop, kwaito and Afrikaans pop music artists.

Ricky Rick, Kurt Darren, TDK Macassette all formed part of the line-up with DA supporters singing and dancing ahead of Maimane’s speech.