DA manifesto — party would like to swap BEE for UN sustainable goals

Excellent manifesto. Actually more pro-poor than ANC. Blend between promoting growth, which will lift more people out of poverty and expanding social safety net for people stuck in poverty. But dont expect DM to focus on this, no they will latch on to BBE and their evident dislike for Steenhuisen. Trying to paint the DA as racist and only interested in minority interest. Which is clearly nit the case as this manifesto shows

These items should be the message for the next few months. Avoid any discussion about the majority party as far as possible, even the failures, they are public knowledge It’s important stand for something.

I am black guy from Ekurulheni township. DA is running this municipal called Ekurhuleni and things are just about running normally. So I used to love ANC with all my heart until Polokwane conference when my beloved president Thabo was jeered and politically mishandled in that fateful conference. I was so sad for Thabo but I recovered after a while and learned to grow out of my worship of ANC. I used to worship ANC. But now I have no political home, and am considering three parties to vote for including ANC, DA, and EFF. These are my tree parties and hope all voters would vote for one of them and narrow the number of parties in parliament but at least ACDP should have one sit for my favourite political leader, Baba Kenneth. That politician is a politician driven by God

I agree it's important to stand for something. But with so many of the populace still not clear about how the ANC crimes have affect them, a good PR campaign that mixes vision and an injection of the truths about the causes our despair is needed. Otherwise the ANC gets always with promises again. Also, the DA should be careful of replacing something better know and possibly well liked with something abstract like UNSDGs. These things need to be unpacked so that people understand what the UN goals have to do with their current state. Need more emphasis on jobseekers grant and job creation than the other grants for working age people. Otherwise may continue to perpetrate a similar issue as in UK where being pregnant/babies may be seen as an income stream by some. Not saying poor people are not allowed to have children and de supported. Need a way to convert the currently educated (matric+)unemployed to makertable skills e.g apprenticeship It's not clear how the current health system is going to be sorted. It's not going away and it serves the majority. Increasing competition only helps those already covered. A scheme such as the in Germany,France, even closer to home Rwanda (job, social insurance from community organisations etc is added to healthcare pile can help. all who can should pay a bit. Making pastors rich doesn't help the poor. There may be more meat to their manifesto. But its too late in the game to change things, leave them abstract for those lost voters

Whose eyebrows is it raising? Yours and Rebecca Davis?

The "racial blindness of BEE" [sic] has directly led to disasters like Eskom, Transnet and multiple other state failures. It's very, very, very simple: no developing country can afford to have Eskom pay R8000 for a broom because of parasitic middlemen on a racial and indeed racist basis. SA can either be a successful country, or it can have racist BEE. You can only have one of the above.

Here's the thing: There is only party that might, possibly, have to deliver on it's manifesto and that party is the ANC. No other party has any chance of governing alone and so will have to enter into a coalition. And when you do that, then everybody involved has to make concessions. So I like many aspects of this manifesto, especially the expansion of the grants package, but will it ever be delivered? Oh well, we have to hope for something.

At last, a mature manifesto, based on real in the field experience. This is the only solid option for all our people.

Some good ideas, Ferial almost choking giving her muted praise.

I think the DA is correct to remove race as a proxy for disadvantage. This is a practical manifesto. I hope they have the opportunity to make progress in implementing it.

The secret now is to present this to the voters in such a way as to create excitement and gain support.

Bob F - February 26th 2024 at 10:45 -. Yes! Yes! Why is there not another political party with such progressive and intelligent thinking as the DA. Based on this manifesto a majority of thinking persons, irrespective of age, colour, creed or religious following will be attracted to support the DA. Perhaps s decent coalition will follow.

The UN SDG? So they're trying to trigger the truthers and the tankies all at the same time? This should get interesting. On a more serious note, I think they erred by not at least saying they'll phase BEE out gradually based on attaining certain economic growth/human development milestones. What people will hear from the current manifesto (at best) is, "We have a different plan; it may take some time; please be patient — no, really, you'll just have to wait".

B blessed DA.

Brilliant and well thought out manifesto, lets pray that the DA coalition removes the ANC once and for all and returns this country to its full potential.

Net zero is an idiots choice & shows Steenhuisen is not a well read person, but rather a naive follower of the globalist MSM agenda. We need visionaries, & clearly he is not one. We have a plethora of followers to choose from but a dearth of thinkers

Increase child support grant from R510 to R760; Extend the child support grant to pregnant mothers to support child nutrition; I could go back 50 years in the UK welfare system but its the same today. Almost invariably, child support grants simply go to meet the higher earning expectations of the recipients. i.e. only the parents benefit. You are talking about the lower levels of society, & they simply have different ideals than you or I adhere to.

The DA is the way to go. I also agree with Moloetse Mbeki's points where he thought the ANC's mortal sins are: MORTAL SIN 1: BBBEE as a government policy MORTAL SIN 2: Affirmative action as an employment policy in the state (‘Parasitic’ black middle class) MORTAL SIN 3: Retaining SOEs instead of privatising them (Investment boycott) MORTAL SIN 4: Foreign policy failures in Mozambique and Zimbabwe MORTAL SIN 5: Removing the army’s control of 4,862km of land border

Don’t care much for manifestos, rarely translate into measurable achievements. What should replace the intentions of what BEE was meant to address? If we agree that BEE/EEA should be scrapped, does it also suggest that the intention, goals, agendas of addressing past imbalances in wealth creation, access to employment and fair and just employment practices for previously marginalised groups shouldn’t be considered. I and I believe any reasonable person will agree that we need to build a vibrant economy that creates jobs so WE can all be prosperous, but I think it’s foolish to think the majority of the population should just be happy to have a job packing groceries and tending to the immaculate gardens of people who themselves are beneficiaries of a system that was designed to disenfranchise them. I think it’s an incontrovertible truth that, that will lead us all into a purgatorial reality we sought to avoid in the 90’s The ANC are incompetent liars. MANY white people are well meaning and just plainly dishonest. But then again, I hold the view that if I were white, I’d probably have voted for maintaining the status quo in the referendum

It would be appropriate for DA to explain this UNSDG as I have tried to familiarise myself with it and I battled to understand it in our own SA context. Possibly not the only one who needs clarity on it and how it will be implemented, but many voters would love clarity as they are still attached to BEE and EE, which on paper looked good for the black population, but were badly implemented by the ANC and mainly benefited their families and friends.

I notice no one has said a thing about education. Our current school year is 43 weeks - Longer even than China by 2 weeks going by a quick Google search. Teachers and learners are absolutely shattered. This manifesto wants to add a week to that. And before you start talking about half day jobs, ask yourself very carefully why YOU aren't doing it if it's such a cushy job. Oh, and you're welcome to pop in at the end of a term when marks and reports are due.

Exactly the same as the ANC - promises, promises, and more promises - with NO WAY to make it work. Pffft! Clowns- ALL of them. If it starts with a "P" don't trust it: Police, Priest, Politician, Pope, Prostitute, Property Salesman, President, Poepol... the list is looong!

I think BBBEE should go. We need BBPDEE. There were many Previously Disadvantaged who were not black African, but other races as well.

Re the U.N.'s "Sustainable Development Goals"- it all looks very pretty on the surface, but behind it lurks a sinister plot to strip us of our freedoms & enslave us to Globalist Totalitarian ideologies. +If you think that's a 'baseless conspiracy theory', we need to talk