📰 05/10/2021

🚰 8 reasons to vote DA for clean running water and decent sanitation

DA-run municipalities are taking eight steps to provide a reliable supply of clean running water and decent sanitation to residents and businesses. These are things DA-run governments are ALREADY doing – not empty promises for the future.

Read more: https://www.da.org.za/2021/10/8-reasons-to-vote-da-for-clean-running-water-and-decent-sanitation

🚱 DA to take political action against Gauteng water crisis

The collapse of water delivery in Gauteng is a crisis, and residents are being denied their right to water supply by the failing ANC. The DA, after being inundated with pleas from residents to help them and to take up their fight, will take political action tomorrow (Wednesday, 6 October at 8am).

🚨 Hate Speech Bill will undermine Freedom of Speech

The DA last week submitted objections to the Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill, emphasising that if the issues identified in the Bill are not addressed during the legislative process, this Bill will have a chilling effect on freedom of speech.

Read more: https://www.da.org.za/2021/10/hate-speech-bill-will-undermine-freedom-of-speech

🗽 DA vindicated after DIRCO Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is fired over R118m New York property debacle

The DA welcomed the dismissal of the CFO of the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO), Caiphus Ramashua, over his alleged role in the R118 million fruitless and wasteful expenditure in the highly controversial New York Pilot Project.

Read more: https://www.da.org.za/2021/10/da-vindicated-after-dirco-cfo-is-fired-over-r118m-new-york-property-debacle

📺 WATCH: Road to election 2021

On Thursday evening, DA Head of Policy, Gwen Ngwenya, will join our host, Richard Newton, for a discussion about how the DA is boosting the local economy & building world-class roads and public transport in the first of a series of webinars on the road to election 2021.

Thursday, 7 October from 19h00-20h00: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemocraticAllianceSA