DA raising funds for 2019 elections

WITH just 93 weeks left before South Africans cast their votes in the national general elections, the DA has gone on a massive drive to raise funds for their “#Change19 Campaign” to unseat the ANC.

The DA last week sent out a call for “ordinary democrats” to donate towards their vision for a post-ANC South Africa in 2019.

The call, which came from DA MP John Steenhuizen, stated that the campaign would see DA leader Mmusi Maimane crisscrossing the country, delivering the message of change.

“[The campaign] requires many resources. With your donation, we can host more community meetings, print countless leaflets and knock on hundreds of thousands more doors,” Steenhuizen wrote.

The DA has been known for running well-coordinated and aggressive campaigns, having staged one of its biggest in 2013 – Maimane’s “believe in change” campaign.

Maimane ran for the Gauteng premiership under a campaign themed “Believe”. The campaign saw him travelling to 350 locations around Gauteng .

In the Eastern Cape, former provincial leader Athol Trollip, who took Nelson Mandela Bay from the ANC, made more than 1 200 campaign stops, including house meetings, street meetings, door-to-door activities, debates, rallies, marches, protests and oversight visits.

“Our #Change19 Campaign must spread the DA’s message of hope and change across the length and breadth of South Africa,” Steenhuizen said.

“The DA is the only political party that can unseat the ANC in 2019. Your contribution can make that happen.”