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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>DA spokesperson Willie Aucamp says the party is open to working with the ANC to help its municipalities improve.<\/p>\n

This comes after President Cyril Ramaphosa told ANC councillors this week not to shy away from learning how DA-led municipalities are doing things differently and incorporating those practices into their respective municipalities.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can name them here; there\u2019s nothing wrong with competition,\u201d Ramaphosa said. \u201cThey are often DA-controlled municipalities. We need to ask ourselves what it is they are doing that is better than what we are doing. There\u2019s nothing wrong with us saying we want to see what Cape Town and Stellenbosch are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an interview with the SABC, Aucamp said the DA would answer any call to improve the lives of South Africans.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe DA is not here to serve itself; we are here to serve South Africa,\u201d he said. \u201cIf we can make a contribution in any municipality where the ANC governs, we will most certainly do so. From the DA side, we will gladly join hands with anybody to improve service delivery for everybody in South Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aucamp made a comparison between the DA-led municipality of Midvaal, which is considered one of the best-run municipalities in South Africa, achieving clean audits, and its neighbouring Emfuleni municipality, led by the ANC, which is considered one of the worst municipalities because of poor service delivery and financial mismanagement.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can see the difference between day and night. The difference is that with one municipality, Midvaal, where the DA governs, you’ve got the political will to give service delivery and to make that municipality succeed and to root out corruption.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhereas right next door, you have the same number of people, the same size of municipality, the same demographics, but you’ve got a municipality that failed because the ANC is not delivering there.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said when South Africans want to buy property, they ask themselves whether they want to do so in an ANC-led \u201cbad\u201d municipality or a DA-led \u201cgood\u201d municipality.<\/p>\n

\u201cRamaphosa confirmed what many DA voters, as well as previous ANC voters, know, and that is that the DA governs better. If you look at the municipalities all over South Africa, as the president said, where the DA governs, we get clean audits, service delivery is on the order of the day, and people live better lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

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