Dear Editor
Today, 13 July 2023, the DA in the Eastern Cape concluded a very successful engagement with the Chief of the amaBhaca people, Bhekamabandla Mdutyana, at the amaBhaca kraal near Mount Frere.
I was joined by DA Alfred Nzo Constituency Leader, Baxolile Nodada MP, and local DA councillors and we were welcomed with open arms.
We raised a number of issues with Chief Mdutyana and have offered our assistance with the issues that were raised by the community. These issues include rural safety, the development of rural communities through the delivery of basic services and the repair and maintenance of some of the most shocking rural roads. These roads are a barrier to development and service delivery.
The DA has agreed to take these issues up and we will be fighting for the amaBhaca people in the EC Provincial Legislature and in National Parliament to ensure that services are prioritised and expedited to this community.
We also welcomed 200 former ANC members into the DA fold at a public meeting at Ntsimangweni Village in Ward 10 of the Umzimvubu Local Municipality.
The DA’s rural strategy is paying dividends and starting to bear fruit in some of the most far-flung parts of the Eastern Cape, where the people of the province are starting to see hope in a future led by a DA government. The DA expects incredible growth in these communities in the 2024 national and provincial government elections, as well as in the 2026 local government elections.
We have made a commitment that we will continue to work hard to bring the ANC down below 60% in the Eastern Cape and will continue to bring services to the forgotten people of the province.
There is no corner of the province where the DA in the Eastern Cape is not welcomed with open arms. We continue to grow across the province every single day.
Regards
Andrew Whitfield MP
DA EC Provincial Leader
42Nd Street
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Van is getting married, but he and his fiancee have never done the deed – in fact he\’s never been with any woman before. He\’s getting more and more nervous as the big day approaches, so he confides in his friend. His friend says \’No worries man. I\’ll come by the honeymoon suite before you guys get there, and I\’ll hide behind the curtain, and I\’ll whisper instructions to you.\’
\’You\’d do that for me?\’
\’Sure thing man!\’
So the wedding day arrives, it was a lovely service (so I was told, I wasn\’t there myself) and Van\’s friend sneaks into the honeymoon suite as promised and hides behind the curtain.
Van and his new wife arrive in the room, get settled on the bed, and things are getting steamy.
But Van is still super nervous and his tummy is bubbling, so he murmers to his wife, \’Listen babe, I\’m just gonna go to the bathroom quick. I think it\’s that wors roll from earlier.\’
\’Sure thing babe.\’
So Van goes into the bathroom, and he\’s taking quite a long time. And his wife is starting to feel the nerves herself. And it\’s getting worse. She can\’t hold it in. But she doesn\’t want to go after he\’s gone and totally ruin the mood. So she looks around and finally finds a shoebox. Quickly, she does her business in the shoebox, and she shoves it under the bed just as Van comes back from the loo.
Van gets back on the bed and they go at it again. But after a minute or so Van smells something not so lekker.
\’What\’s that smell?\’
\’Nothing babe,\’ he wife tries to assure him.
\’No man there\’s definitely something not so lekker in this room!\’VSo Van starts looking around the room, in the corners, in the cupboard, and finally he looks under the bed, and sees the shoebox.
He pull it out, and opens it up, and in horror he shouts \’Sies! Daar\’s kak in hierdie doos!\’
And from behind the curtain his friend yells, \’NEE MAN, DRAAI HAAR OM!\”