‘Meaningful agreements’ needed at coalition convention - Steenhuisen
DA leader John Steenhuisen hopes discussions at the multi-party coalition convention will result in a policy document aimed at fixing South Africa's problems.
Several opposition parties will gather in Kempton Park on Wednesday and Thursday as they look to work together to unseat the ANC during the 2024 national elections.
Speaking on Monday, Steenhuisen said the national convention provides an opportunity the parties cannot afford to squander.
"The Moonshot Pact has captured the public imagination like no other opposition project has ever done in the history of our democracy. We dare not mess it up now. That is why the DA is deeply committed to ensuring that the pact emerges from the national convention with a meaningful agreement on how we will work together to rescue South Africa.
“I have said from the very start that this must not just be an anti-ANC project. It must be a pro-South African project that tables real solutions to the urgent problems our country faces.
“The parties involved in this process have already made some progress towards a minimum joint program of action.
“From the DA’s side, I can assure the people of South Africa that we will continue to act at the convention in the same good faith and spirit of cooperation that has gotten us this far," said Steenhuisen.
The DA leader urged South Africans to judge the convention based on solutions.
"Our country desperately needs a new government that will put an end to the suffering faced by thousands of learners who still use pit toilets at schools. It is time to end this disgraceful system, which recently claimed the life of four-year-old Langalam Viki, who drowned in a pit toilet.
“We need a new government that will alleviate the suffering of millions of South Africans who can no longer afford food.”
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