Maimane outspoken on plans
DA LEADER Mmusi Maimane has urged President Jacob Zuma to tell those attending the ANC conference in Gauteng to start packing their bags, saying change is coming in 2019.
He was speaking at a public meeting on Saturday evening in the Dutch Reformed Church hall in Gonubie, East London.
Maimane’s visit to the province at the weekend formed part of his national #Change 19 tour.
The tour began with a public meeting in Ntabankulu on Friday. He moved to Izinyoka in King William’s Town on Saturday for door-to-door visits and a street meeting, before ending with the public meeting in Gonubie.
Maimane’s address touched on key national as well as regional issues such as the Gupta leaks, corruption, Nkandla, unemployment in the Buffalo City metro (BCM) and even potholes in Gonubie.
“[Nelson] Mandela left us too soon and then the tsotsis took over, the tsotsis who are now in conference in Johannesburg,” he said to the cheerful crowd that filled the church.
“We all know nothing good will come from that conference.
“What is the point of this conference anyway, when their policies are all made in Saxonwold and Dubai?”
He also spoke about job creation in BCM, saying more needed to be done.
“Mercedes-Benz cannot be the only factory. More factories are needed, where people will not only work but have an equal share in,” Maimane said.
The DA leader also shared the party’s plans, which include unseating Zuma in the no-confidence vote next month.
In September, Maimane said, the DA would be going to court to have Zuma account for the some 700 corruption charges related to the infamous arms deal and, in October, the party would be focusing on a judicial commission of inquiry to investigate the Gupta e-mails.