New SA coming in 2024 - Maimane

JOHANNESBURG – New political formation Build One SA will change the landscape of South Africa come the 2024 national elections, said its leader Mmusi Maimane.

The former Democratic Alliance (DA) leader launched Build One SA (BOSA) in Naledi, Soweto yesterday.

In a speech accompanied by ululations, Maimane said all provinces had representatives at the event.

“I am child of this country that produces great leaders and when people said they will die in 1994 there was a God who said ‘no, thiings are going to change’. And I am here to tell you post 1994, do not worry, do not panic because this country will produce new stars…that’s why we are here.”

He said Naledi, meaning star in Tswana, was chosen for the lauch because “more stars will be born.”

“We launch here in Gauteng where the remains of one of the first human named Homo Naledi was found. This township is also a reminder that townships have become dormitories of unemployed.”

He decried the counctry’s unemplyment rate, the high cost of living, Eskom’s power cuts and crime.

“Our nation is failing, it is broken… this have to change. We have to move away from an economy that works for a few, to one that works for everybody.’’

JOHANNESBURG - ANC electoral Committee Chair Kgalema Motlanthe has warned the party’s political structures against making pronouncements on their preferred leadership ahead of the national conference, saying this was against the rules.

Motlanthe, in a letter to Luthuli House on Friday which TimesLIVE has seen, threatened disciplinary action against those who continue to flout the rules and guidelines he and his team have formulated.

At least five ANC provincial executive committees (PECs) and two regional structures have made public their preferred candidates for various positions. PECs that have made public their preferences include Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape and Gauteng.