NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TUESDAY, 26 FEBRUARY 2019

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the bosses of the people. So, there is very little that we can take from the ANC. However, we will create a conducive environment for jobs, create infrastructure, water infrastructure and make sure that Eskom is readily working for South Africans with a keen focus on local economic development, small businesses and make sure that informal economy is allowed to flourish without the bureaucracy of the people who have brought them into conditions of poverty. On the 08 May 2019, vote the ANC out. Viva the IFP, viva. [Time expired.]

House Chairperson, the quickest way to uncover a political party's attitude to the role of small business as the solution to our economic problems, is to do a word search of their manifesto.

In the DA's manifesto launched on Saturday, you will find

39 references to small businesses, not just in the section on small business but throughout the document. In the ANC's manifesto, small business gets 13 mentions and in the EFF's, only 3. Does that tell us something about their priority for growing our economy and creating jobs?