GNU offers DA chance to tap into new market of votes: Steenhuisen

Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen says the Government of National Unity (GNU) is an opportunity for the party to tap into an electorate that has not considered their party before.

Steenhuisen serves as Minister of Agriculture in the GNU.

He says it’s important for the DA to debunk the myth that it serves certain sectors of society through the GNU.

He was addressing a committee meeting ahead of a by-election in Ward 92 in Tshwane.

“To improve and better the quality of education to poor rural black children in schools. To begin to eliminate pit toilets, to be able to ensure that people don’t take off a day at work to be able to stand in a queue at Home Affairs. These are the things that matter. I think there’s a huge opportunity for the DA to open into a whole new market of votes that perhaps viewed them skeptically before but they are working with other parties and they’re delivering. I think that’s a huge opportunity for the DA to shift its own brand over the next of couple of years to be blue.”