DA leader Helen Zille at the launch of her party's jobs campaign in Pretoria. (DA website )
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Democratic Alliance (DA) leader, Helen Zille, has launched a scathing attack on the ANC-led government, accusing it of destroying the promise of a fair chance in life that came with the country's freedom in 1994.
She has been speaking at the launch of her party's jobs campaign in Pretoria. The jobs campaign aims to turn the country's dismal unemployment situation around within the next decade.
Zille has decried the fact that more than seven million South Africans are out of work. "It (ANC) is too divided and it is too corrupt to do anything about unemployment. It can not be trusted to deliver text books to learners in Limpopo and the Eastern Cape. It can not be trusted to get the economy growing, so that more people have the opportunity to work," says Zille.
She says with the job campaign, her party will implement programmes to make the economy grow at 8% if elected to lead the national government.
She says her party’s jobs strategy is anchored on creating an environment for thriving private enterprises, eliminating red-tape for small businesses and improving economic infrastructure.
The ANC was unavailable to comment on the DA’s attack
Zille says the ANC has failed to break down the wall that divides the haves and have nots. The DA believes other developing nations have shown that the South African economy will need 8% annual growth - a target the party admits is high.
Also on the agenda, is an improved public education system with schools accountable for shortcomings and expanding foreign trade particularly with other African countries.
"We will only create jobs when we grow faster. And we will only grow faster if we get more investments. And we will only get investments if we help businesses to start here, to move here and grow here," says the DA’s Tim Harris.
The ANC was unavailable to comment on the DA’s attack
