Mr Speaker, we have just heard of a new Taylor Nelson Sofres, TNS annual survey of local government which reveals yet again that the ANC is failing in its ability to deliver basic services to all South Africans. More than half of those surveyed are unhappy.
Across the country, continued corruption and mismanagement have reduced the provision of basic services. In the ANC-controlled Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, the level of dissatisfaction increased from 42% to over 60%, while in the ANC-controlled Mangaung, the level was 48%.
The DA has offered an alternative to this corruption and poor governance. The same survey shows that the City of Cape Town received the lowest dissatisfaction score in the country. To put it clearly, more people in Cape Town are happy with the services they receive than in any other metro in the country. [Interjections.]
This comes after clean audits for the city for every year the DA has been in power and confirms the Universal Household Access to Basic Services, UHABS, report, which showed Cape Town was the best-performing local government administration in the country.
The difference between the ANC and the DA in local government is becoming increasingly obvious. It is the difference between an open opportunity society for all and a closed-crony society for some.
To quote the editor of Business Day, Peter Bruce:
As most ANC-run cities broadly subside and most DA-run ones broadly prosper, the political effect becomes a little like compound interest. You don't notice it at first but after a while it really begins to matter.
South Africans are noticing and on 18 May it will begin to matter. [Applause.]