Dear Editor
Today, the DA will be launching its Social Development Policy Campaign in order to protect social grants from ANC corruption.
Download the policy summary here.
It is a well-known fact that the ANC has plundered the fiscus over the past 3 decades and it has now come full circle.
17 million of the most vulnerable South Africans are now at severe risk of losing their grants because of a party that puts itself before its citizens.
This is why the DA has put together a comprehensive set of targeted interventions to ensure that this does not happen.
While social grants and other forms of social welfare are never an adequate substitute for economic growth and job creation, they play a vital role in protecting the most vulnerable in society from extreme poverty.
Furthermore, they are social grants are a constitutional right and any suggestion that the DA would take them away if elected into national government is patently false and misleading.
Some of the key interventions the DA proposes in its policy are:
- Increase the child support grant at the same level of the official food poverty line. This means that the child support grant, under a DA government will be increased from R480 to R624;
- Ensure the elderly are financially stable in their retirement through introducing automatic enrolment of employees in pension schemes, whom can choose to opt out of the scheme should they wish;
- Consider empowering the unemployed with cash transfers for basic services;
- To lower the cost of food, a DA national government would reduce the taxes South Africans must pay for essential food items;
- Ensure that the poor have access to quality basic healthcare services through Universal Health Coverage;
- Reduce teenage pregnancy through providing increased access to sex education, and contraception methods in high schools;
- Develop and implement fatherhood programmes with NGOs and community centres that provide family and children services and initiatives;
- Create a national plan to tackle homelessness in South Africa. Currently, without a national policy, there is no fair distribution of funds across provinces to address homelessness;
- Ensure that survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) can easily access the help they need. This means providing them with important support services, such as healthcare, legal assistance, shelter, and essential items like dignity kits; and
- Increase safe spaces for children at risk of abuse or exposure to violence or risky activities (gangs, drugs, and alcohol).
The DA encourages all South Africans to read our policy and to join our fight against poverty.
Together we can create a fairer and more prosperous South Africa but that requires us to register to vote in order to remove the ANC from power.
Regards
Mat Cuthbert MP
DA Head of Policy
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A British man on safari walks into a bar far out in the reaches of a game reserve in Southern Africa, he stays at the bar for a while shooting the shit with the bartender and drinking like a fish, he offer to buy the barkeep a round and since no one else is within 2km of their small oasis of liquor the barkeep obliges. The englishman goes off to the bathroom to have a good old go at the porcelain, he\’s back and ready for a few more whiskeys. He\’s just sat down when suddenly in the distance he hears a scream. He looks over his shoulder and dismisses it as nothing, he turns to the barkeep and orders a drink, takes a sip and hears the scream again. He looks at the barkeep who just shrugs it off. A minute or two later he and the barman hear it again and go outside to take a look. They see a lone figure running towards them screaming, he spots them and lets out a cry, RUN!!!!! HE\”S COMING!!!!!
The barkeep and the Englishman both look at the terrified bedraggled sight before them, and try to calm him down, but he\’s completely inconsolable. They give him water and finally manage to get a word out of him but he struggles free from their grasp and run away screaming.
A few minutes later the same thing happens with a whole group of men running in and screaming, he\’s coming, he\’s coming the barkeep grabs hold of one of the men as he tries to sprint past the bar and tries to get information out of him, again no response other than terrified gibberish.
The barkeep and his customer are starting to get worried, they start to pack up before another group of horrified natives run up to the bar most of them flee but one tries to hide behind the bar, the barkeep pulls out a shotgun and points it at the terrified man\’s face, finally managing to coax some words out of him. \”He\’s coming for us, Vernon Koekemoer is coming for us, we have to hide!!! We have to get out of here.\” He gets up and tries to run but the barkeep grabs him, feeling trapped in a panic he grabs the barkeeps shotgun and blows his own head off. The Englishman and the barkeep look at each other starting to really panic now.
They look out of the window and off in the distance they see a tornado coming towards the bar, at the bottom of the tornado they see the hugest beast of a man they have ever seen, as he gets closer they spot that he is riding a rhinocerous and using a crocodile as a riding whip, with each smack of the crocodile across the back of the rhino the louder is screams and the faster it runs, the tornado following it getting ever larger.
The 2 look at each other and start to fortify their position, they\’ve got a gun and they\’re waaay to drunk to run, so they start piling bar stool and tables and anything they can get their hands on to make sure they\’ll be safe when he arrives. They\’re not gonna make it, they can see the man slowing down his rhino, by now the crocodile is nothing but reptile paste on the bruised rump of the half dead rhino, the rhino drops down dead from exhaustion and crashes to the ground right outside the bar the tornado loses it\’s last breath in a cloud of dust as the huge man crashes his way through the make shift barricade and charges up towards the bar where the 2 men have taken shelter, he grabs a bottle of the hardest liquor on the shelf and down the entire litre in 1 gulp, he peers over the bar sobbing and sees the 2 defenders cowering down behind the crates of beer, they look up at the mans\’ face and he stares at them with a look of complete and utter hopelessness, he stares at them for a half second and half screams, half sobs, \”Oh my god what are you still doing here!!! WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE NOW!!!! Vernon Koekemoer is coming!!!!\”
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