HELEN ZILLE’S POINTS

Highest access to health care in SA:

“Life expectancy in the Western Cape is the highest in the country, supported by a functional public health-care system. Since 2009, life expectancy for men has increased from 59 years to a projected 66 years, and for women from 64 years to a projected 72 years.”

Over 200 000 housing opportunities since 2009:

“Since 2009, the province had delivered 212 967 housing opportunities across the Western Cape. We have exceeded our combined target for housing and serviced sites since 2014/15. And we are on track to meet 100% of our targets by end of term.”

Youth opportunity:

“In 2018 alone, we spent over R24.8 billion (38% of our budget) on child and youth-related services, including eLearning, broadband infrastructure, education, early childhood development and child protection services.”

82% budget on the poor and highest clean audits in SA:

“At 83%, the Western Cape received the highest number of clean audits in South Africa in 2018/19 across all entities and departments.”

Lowest unemployment in SA:

“We have SA’s lowest unemployment rate at a full 14 percentage points below the national average on the expanded definition.”