ANC Ward Councillor joins DA
Sunday 11 October 2015
Today we welcomed Siseko Mbandezi, the ANC councillor in Ward 101 in the DA.
In his operational report at the ANC’s National General Council, Gwede Mantashe admitted on Friday that the ANC’s membership numbers have decreased.
He also said that an increasing part of the ANC’s support base is migrating to the DA.
The fact is that the DA is the only political party that is showing substantial growth over time.
When we welcome new members in the DA, I am always reminded that belonging to a political party that truly represents your values and voting for a government that you want, isn’t simply your right. It is your duty.
Like so many others before him, and many more to come, Siseko made that choice.
In the DA we are not in the business of luring people from other political parties. We do not pay Councillors and other public representatives to join our party. However, we understand that the ANC of today – Jacob Zuma’s ANC, Marius Fransman’s ANC – is not the ANC of yesterday. And therefore it is inevitable that more and more ANC members will decide to cross to the DA.
In the DA we speak of three core values – Freedom, Fairness and Opportunity. These are not hollow words. These words describe the values on which we hope to build the future of our country.
More and more South Africans decide to walk the road with us and to turn their backs on the corruption, mismanagement and deceit that has come to typify the ruling Party.
In the Western Cape, the DA showed that there is an alternative for South Africa under ANC rule. An alternative of good governance, of service delivery and of job creation.
But change is also coming to the rest of South Africa. It is coming to the Metros of Gauteng and Nelson Mandela Bay, where the ANC has been pushed below 50%.
I am glad that Siseko decided to walk this road with us. We believe that, particularly in the run-up to the election next year, more and more people in the Western Cape will unite behind the DA and help us to strengthen our majority in the Western Cape even further.
Statement issued by Liza Albrecht: DA Western Cape Communications Manager, 11 October 2015
