Local Government Elections: Dikwankwetla vows to bring change in QwaQwa

The long-forgotten political party, Dikwankwetla Party of South Africa (DPSA) has instigated in this local government elections, after the party had issues previously.

Coming powerfully this time around, the party vows to take over the Maluti-A-Phofung from the hands of the ruling party.

During its manifesto launch, the party’s leader Moeketsi Lebesa says his party has an infrastructural master plan to resolve the long standing problem of water and electricity within the municipality.

Lebesa says the ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC) has failed to maintain the infrastructure within the municipality, and it has become a norm, where residents live days without electricity.

He has further sent a strong warning to the ruling party, that it has to refrain from corruption within the power utility.

In his words, Lebesa has urged residents of the municipality to vote for men and women of integrity.

He says the first priority of the party should it take over, the party is going to construct roads, creation of jobs, implement skills development and uplift young people to partake job opportunities for youth.

“Because of affirmative action and ANC’s unfortunate policy of cadre deployment, the people who have what we call institutional memory and knowledge management in Maluti-a-Phofung were replaced by cadre deployment,” said Lebesa.

“But as Dikwankwetla Party of South Africa we still have the copies of those master plans.

That is why during the shutdown it is me the leader of DPSA, who wrote the rescue plan for the municipality, to restore water in QwaQwa and that plan was accepted by government,” he added.

He says their intentions is to ensure there’s proper supply of water to Maluti-A-Phofung residents and to ensure there’s no middle man in terms of supplying electricity to the citizens.

In the first non-racial elections held in South Africa in 1994, the party contested both parliamentary and provincial elections.

It won 19,451 votes in the parliamentary elections (0.1% of nationwide vote) and 21,877 votes in the provincial elections in the Free State, failing to win seats in either.