DA leader Mmusi Maimane is continuing to capitalise on the wave of scandals sweeping the ruling ANC‚ using every opportunity to bolster the DA’s prospects in the 2019 general elections. Maimane‚ who was introduced as the next president of SA to hundreds of DA supporters painting Church Square in Pretoria blue‚ said his party was preparing for the funeral of the ANC in 2019. He led a march to the Treasury offices to call for Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba to step down. Maimane said they started at the local government level with coalitions that deliver for the people‚ saying it was time to intensify the fight. "After we take [President Jacob] Zuma out on August 8‚ we will carry on because 2019 is coming where we will see a new government‚ a government that will take SA forward." August 8 has been set for the vote on the motion of no confidence against a besieged Zuma after the Constitutional Court ruled that speaker of Parliament Baleka Mbete had a prerogative to decide whether the v...
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