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Opening of KwaZakhele constituency office marks start of DA 2016 campaign to win NMBM

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Dear MyPE

DA provincial chairperson Veliswa Mvenya and I today opened the newest DA constituency office in Port Elizabeth.

The Ngqura constituency in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro comprises the follow areas: Zwide, New Brigton, KwaZakhele, Motherwell, KwaDwesi, KwaMagxaki and Blue Water Bay.

It’s an open secret that the DA has set its electoral sights on the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro.

This municipality was yesterday described by DA parliamentary leader Mmusi Maimane as a sinking ship and there can be a no more apt metaphorical description for a city ideally located along our beautiful and very strategic coastline. The Southern African coastline is littered with shipwrecks, and the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro has for all intense and purposes become another shipwreck statistic.

Port Elizabeth is a city of two faces. One which projects an image of modern and progressive society and the other an image of poverty, refuse strewn squalor and dysfunctional street lighting that allow crime to reign with impunity in the black and brown communities, out of sight from tourists and affluent citizens.

This tale of two cities simply must be turned around and all the citizens of Port Elizabeth should be given equal access to basic services and the townships must be transformed into suburbs too.

The establishment of this DA constituency with a constituency office in the historic Njoli Square is the first step in the DA transforming this former ANC stronghold into a free, democratic zone where the DA will contest for every single vote from amongst voters that have become disillusioned with the ANC and its woeful record of non-delivery, nepotism and corruption.

The DA is not establishing a “task team” to achieve this: we established a fully-fledged constituency in this area in June 2014 after the last elections. These elections showed just how close the DA is to winning this metro. Today marks the beginning of our campaign to win PE in 2016.

Regards

Athol Trollip

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