Response to Africa Check
11 February 2014
Your article on the sources of information for #DAdelivers tweets refers (see Ray Joseph's piece "Where does the DA get its facts?" here).
The DA twitter account is not managed from the Premier's Office of the Western Cape, since to do so would be a conflation of party and state.
The DA's social media team at National Head Office has been running the #DAdelivers campaign on twitter for around a year now. Its aim is to inform people of the DA's delivery record in the places where we govern.
The questions raised by Africa Check could have been answered swiftly if they had been directed to the DA in the first place. It is not clear why we never received any such query prior to reading the article on Africa Check.
Below is a list of #DAdelivers tweets queried by Africa Check with references to the source of each one.
We strive for accuracy at all times because we believe that accuracy is crucial for our credibility. If Africa Check finds that any of these statistics are inaccurate, we will gladly rectify them.
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#DAdelivers tweet |
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Quarterly Report, 1 April - 30 September, 2012/13 - National Department of Public Works, 2013 |
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@DA_News municipalities have created 31,000 job opportunities in the past year. #DAdelivers |
Quarterly Report, 1 April - 30 September, 2012/13 - National Department of Public Works, 2013 |
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2011 National Census |
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The 2012 Universal Household Access to Basic Services Report compiled by the Department of Co-operative Government and Traditional Affairs |
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UN-Habitat (2011) State of the World's Cities 2010/2011 |
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City of Cape Town expenditure analysis 2012 |
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80% of the R2 billion spent by the Western Cape Government on tenders during 2012/2013 was paid to #BEEbusinesses. #DAdelivers |
Western Cape Government expenditure analysis by Finance and Economic Development MEC, Alan Winde, 2012 |
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Western Cape Human Resource Database 2013 |
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76% of the Western Cape Government's budget is redistributed to poor communities. #DAdelivers |
Western Cape Government expenditure analysis by Finance and Economic Development MEC, Alan Winde, 2012 |
Issued by Alexander Molteno, National Social Media Manager, Democratic Alliance, February 11 2014
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