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- John Steenhuisen says that SA can now choose between a party that wants to empower its citizens versus one that wants to empower the state.
- The DA held its inaugural policy conference via zoom.
- Steenhuisen says DA policies will be able to start a labor revolution and grow the economy.
Acting DA Leader John Steenhuisen says the only way to improve South Africa’s fortunes is through a change in paradigm and policy direction.
He made the comments in a short video after the district attorney’s two-day policy conference, which was held via Zoom.
Steenhuisen said the Office of the Prosecutor had debated and developed policies that its members considered the best to move the country forward.
Without mentioning the ANC, he said, for the first time in many years, the country had a clear choice between a party that sought to empower the state and the DA, which it said would empower the people.
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“From resource-based empowerment to fighting for a non-racial future that includes all of South Africa, economic policies that will lift people out of poverty and into opportunity, and focus on the 13 million South Africans living for below the poverty line through broad “empowerment-based policies,” he said.
South Africa is already in a recession, and an even grimmer economic outlook is anticipated as the government and various stakeholders try to find solutions and investments to rebuild in a post-Covid-19 world.
The unemployment rate, currently at 30.1%, is also expected to continue to grow as the country’s economy reels from the effects of Covid-19.
“These are the policies that we believe will move this country forward. We need to ignite the jobs revolution in this country, and we need to have record economic growth,” Steenhuisen said.
The district attorney will hold a press conference on Monday.
