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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>Poster campaign launch goes ahead without premier candidate Chris Pappas<\/p>\n

The DA says its premier candidate Chris Pappas will rescue KwaZulu-Natal voters from an \u201cabusive relationship\u201d with the ANC.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of traditional ANC voters are feeling out in the cold, they don\u2019t see another political party,\u201d DA KZN leader Francois Rodgers said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s almost like being in an abusive relationship where a husband beats a wife and she doesn\u2019t believe there\u2019s life outside her marriage. We\u2019ve got to tell people they don\u2019t have to live like that, that\u2019s our message to traditional ANC voters apathetic about voting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rodgers was speaking during the unveiling of Pappas billboards in Chatsworth on Monday for the 2024 national and provincial elections.<\/p>\n

Pappas was announced as the party\u2019s premier candidate in September. He did not attend the event, with the DA citing multiple meetings as the reason.<\/p>\n

His campaign manager and eThekwini councillor Sakhile Mngadi said he had the experience to lead a province despite his relatively young age.<\/p>\n

\u201cChris is young but experienced. He has been a ward councillor in the largest metro and he was a member of the legislature so he has the provincial experience. He\u2019s the mayor of a municipality that\u2019s doing well and so we think that\u2019s enough experience to do the job. He has proven in every role he\u2019s occupied that he\u2019s able to be a top achiever,\u201d Mngadi said.<\/p>\n

Rodgers said Pappas, like other DA councillors, is receiving guidance through the party\u2019s \u201cgovernance unit\u201d in its head office. The unit looks at how to run municipalities and provinces, largely taking lessons from its work in the Western Cape, Rodgers said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we have a roadmap of how to govern, whether it\u2019s a province or a municipality. Chris engages with the governance unit about uMngeni regularly and they advise him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re already looking at putting together a shadow [executive] for the province and those individuals who have the possibility of going into [the executive] will, between now and the elections, receive training from our governance unit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cChris Pappas is a palatable candidate who goes beyond just race. He really is speaking to the issues of this province and people are responding to that. He has shown that with the correct principles behind you, you can turn a challenging situation around.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn office, we expect him to turn things around in this province and that\u2019s something we\u2019ve proven we can do where we govern. The people of KZN are starting to realise the DA can possibly be an agent of change.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rodgers also weighed in on provincial economic development MEC Siboniso Duma lifting the Rugby World Cup trophy instead of KwaZulu-Natal premier Nomusa Dube-Ncube during the Springboks\u2019 victory parade on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I saw the video I thought how disgusting and how disrespectful is that. The premier is Nomusa Dube-Ncube and for Duma to go and lift the cup is disrespectful to women and to the office of the premier. But we\u2019ve come to understand how the ANC works. They talk about respecting women and gender equality, yet the chairperson of province undermines the premier.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cChris will prove to the ANC we can have respectful leaders in our province, unlike the chairperson of the ANC.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the DA was encouraged by recent polls which pointed to a drop in ANC support.<\/p>\n

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