PRESS STATEMENT: DA Must Heed Reality Checks in Tshwane and Western Cape

RP says, DA Must Heed Reality Checks in Tshwane and Western Cape

We must confront the world as it is and not as we wished it were. On Thursday, the DA was confronted by two powerful reality checks, one at either end of the country.

In Tshwane, DA Mayor Cilliers Brink was removed from office by the ANC in a move that had absolutely nothing to do with the best interests of residents. From the outset, the ANC has done as it wishes in the GNU and yesterday was just ‘more of the same’. 

Meanwhile, in Western Cape Provincial Parliament, the DA was bemoaning the effects of rapid population growth in the Western Cape, the strain it is placing on infrastructure, the proliferation of informal settlements, and the negative effect it is having on the quality of life of Western Cape residents.

Referendum Party (RP) leader Phil Craig says, “In the Western Cape, the DA are coming perilously close to a dereliction of duty and breaking their sworn oath to act in the best interests of the Western Cape people. ‘Rapid population growth’ is a euphemism for large scale illegal land invasions which are changing the character of the Western Cape. National government policy then exasperates this problem by actively advantaging illegal settlers through race-based policy. Collectively these actions threaten a cultural genocide which will irrevocably change the unique character and heritage of the Western Cape. People must be free to come to the Western Cape, but they must do so legally. We cannot continue to turn a blind eye to a million illegal land invaders.’’

The majority of the Western Cape people have never voted ANC. If the GNU is going to be a rubber stamp for ANC policy, then it is most definitely not in the best interests of the Western Cape people. 

Craig says, “We want the DA to be far more aggressive in protecting and advancing the interests of the Western Cape people who have given them an outright majority for 16 years. Housing is a concurrent competence and the DA should have passed provincial legislation to deal with informal settlements. They should also have resisted race-based policy. Since they have done neither, at the Referendum Party, we are now going to do both for them.”

The RP has written a constitutional amendment which will end all race based policy, and a provincial Prevention of Illegal Evictions (PIE) act which will allow the Western Cape to end illegal land invasions and begin clearing existing illegal settlements.

More details will be released in due course.

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