DA is quietly confident about its prospects in the North West
Joe McGluwa, the DA candidate for premier in the province, says, ‘Our government is collapsing under the ANC’
The DA and its candidate for premier in the North West, Joe McGluwa, believe the party can make significant inroads in the embattled province, which it has earmarked as a strategic province in the run up to the 2019 general election. McGluwa’s campaign for premier was launched outside the Gupta family’s now closed Shiva Uranium Mine in the North West on Wednesday, where corruption is a prominent theme. McGluwa, who is also party spokesperson for public service and administration, and grew up in the nearby Klerksdorp area, said he is familiar with the challenges people in the province face, saying, “Our government is collapsing under the ANC.” The province has been plagued by corruption and maladministration. Ten provincial departments (including the office of the premier) and eight municipalities have been placed under administration. In 2017 it lost R15bn in irregular expenditure compared with its total budget of just less than R40bn for the last financial year. The DA holds just f...
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