Leader of new kids on the block in South African politics Songezo Zibi, is emphatic about the fact that only new leaders in the form of his party Rise Mzansi would bring stability and services to the people of Tshwane.
Zibi said this much in Atteridgeville, Tshwane where he was on an election campaign to garner votes for his party.
Flanked by hundreds of his supporters, Zibi visited a lady tenant who lives in a shack to hear first-hand about her daily plight.
“Every day South Africans wake up in communities destroyed by greed or left fallow,” said Zibi in his opening salvo as he addressed the crowd of his supporters that was gathered at Tsunami Street in Atteridgeville.
“By no fault of their own, millions of families and their communities wake up to non-existent service delivery – where the water is unsafe to drink and streets are lined by uncollected rubbish,” he said.
Zibi emphasised that the aforesaid living conditions did not just happen, but that they were created by the self-interest of the present political establishment.
“Ensuring that we build safe, prosperous, equal and united communities and country, we need new capable leaders who understand that to meaningfully change a country one cannot behave like a tourist who jumps from position to position with no record of accounting to communities and changing their lives for the better,” said Zibi.
Zibi listed the following points as being of paramount importance to South African communities:
1.Families and communities want to be safe.
2. Members of the community need jobs for all, including for those who are older than 35 years of age.
3.Communities want to be able to put food on the table.
4. Decent service delivery.
5. Support for single mothers.
6. New leaders in the form of Parliamentarians and Provincial legislators who are accountable to the people and their communities.
“The ANC and the DA have both shown that they are unable to govern and that they are not committed to the mission of building the South Africa that we deserve,” said Zibi.
“The undemocratic posture of both the ANC and the DA must be rejected by all South Africans who love the country and its constitution,” he enthused.
Zibi pointed out that the DA mocks Rise Mzansi as “mercenaries” while the ANC, out of fear, refers to the will of the people to elect new leaders as a conspiracy to bring about ” regime change.”
“You can call us names, but that would not change the reality of communities that you have failed when given the opportunity to lead and govern,” said Zibi.
“I rise, you rise, we rise, together,” said Zibi in conclusion as he exalted his supporters.