Mmusi Maimane calls on South Africans to vote for competence over loyalty
ANC Gauteng chair and premier David Makhura is confident the governing party will not have to resort to coalitions, saying they do not work
DA leader Mmusi Maimane says a vote on Wednesday should be about competence and not loyalty. “It’s about building a government for all, black, white, Christian, Muslim, all South Africans. This is about that,” Maimane said on Wednesday shortly after casting his vote. Maimane voted at the Presbyterian Church in Dobsonville in Soweto. The DA, which was the official opposition party following the 2014 general elections, hopes to grow its share of the national vote and in the Western Cape, as well as become the biggest party in Gauteng and the Northern Cape. “This is a test, not about loyalty. I see people today, they must wear whatever shirt they so choose to. This vote is about competence. This vote is about saying let Mmusi Maimane run the country so that we can take it forward,” he told journalists on the steps of the church after he had voted. He had pointed to the DA’s track record, including its governing of the Western Cape and the metros of Johannesburg and Tshwane in Gaute...
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