JOHN STEENHUISEN: DA will put in the hard yards to ensure a better future for all
The party is going back to the basics of building trust and support through grass-roots activism and good governance
24 November 2019 - 19:54
In the 2019 general election, the DA learnt a lesson that SA needs to learn too: real progress comes by doing the hard yards, not by taking the shortcuts.
Throughout the 60 years since its inception in 1959, our party’s mission has been to entrench liberal democracy in SA. In its pursuit of electoral support, and mindful of the gathering crisis in our country that is sinking ever more people into desperate circumstances, the DA turned to quick-fixes, yielding to the populist temptation to tell people what they wanted to hear and show them what they wanted to see...
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