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Celebrating Heritage Day by assisting fire-ravaged community in Nelson Mandela Bay

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Dear MyPE

Today, 24 September 2020, the Democratic Alliance (DA) in Nelson Mandela Bay celebrated Heritage Day by reaching out to the community of Mandela Village in KwaZakhele, Port Elizabeth by donating clothes and food after many people were left destitute due to a fire raising their shacks to the ground.

I was joined by local Democratic Alliance (DA) public representatives in conducting an oversight inspection at the site where 23 homes were destroyed on 14 September 2020. This left close to 80 people without roofs over their heads. (see pics here and here)

These people have been robbed of almost all their earthly belongings, but their biggest challenge is not having their own place of shelter.

We also encountered conflict between two neighbouring communities in the area and the DA will now do its best to facilitate a peaceful agreement between them.

The affected residents are being housed at the KK Ncwane Methodist Church and after our oversight inspection we went to the church to hand over donations and to man a soup kitchen. (see pics here and here)

After a rocky start, due to the ANC objecting to our presence, we were able to proceed and attend to these struggling residents of Nelson Mandela Bay.

The DA will not be intimidated – we are focussed on giving back to our communities and not cheap politicking.

This Heritage Day we reflect on the rich diversity of our country. We truly are a beautiful country of diverse people, cultures and ideas. Diversity of ideas, and cultures makes us stronger.

This beseeches us to embrace each other, and in our diversity, in a nation underpinned by equality, no person’s heritage is more important than the next.

The DA stands alone, among all parties, as the most diverse South Africa has ever seen. The DA reflects the rich diversity of heritage and ideas in SA, more than any other, and within the DA you will see a true rainbow nation.

We must fix our country’s unjust past by focusing on the devastating effects of this past, rather than creating further divides between us.

Let us celebrate that today we all have a different heritage. But the future belongs to those who treat all heritages equally.

Regards

Cllr Nqaba Bhanga
DA Eastern Cape Provincial Leader and NMB Mayoral Candidate

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Alan Straton

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Passionate about Port Elizabeth and definitely NOT packing for Perth. Alan's ethos is epitomised in the words of Nelson Mandela; "I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the idea of a democratic and free society. If need be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." See more articles by Alan.