Action SA Soweto-based Councillor Mandla Nyaqela and the chairs of five ASA branches in Soweto have announced they are joining the DA.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) welcomes the activists and former Councillor to the DA. Those joining know the only way to get Joburg working is through getting the DA a majority. People are beginning to understand that the best way to get water, electricity, clean neighbourhoods, investment and jobs is through the kind of good governance that the DA has a record in delivering.
Councillor Nyaqela told journalists in Soweto that he had joined ASA with high expectations but has been sorely disillusioned, primarily because there is no space for debate. Nyaqela described ASA as a top-down dictatorship where one’s role as a member is seen as just receiving instructions. He said nobody was ever elected and all positions were appointed by one or two leaders at the top. He said it’s impossible to preach democracy from a party that is completely undemocratic.
Nyaqela was joined in his walkover by ASA’s branch chair from Ward 37, Sipho Magubane, the chairs of four other branches and fifty former ASA activists.
These new additions to the DA cause are the first of many who want to build a City with a better future.