Under the DA-led coalition, the reformed EPWP programme has created almost 25 000 job opportunities based on a fair and equitable system for all South Africans. The ANC has also failed in delivering the dream of access to housing. Despite their rapid land release programme, many incomplete and abandoned housing projects were listed as units delivered, creating false dreams, like the incomplete River Park Development in Alex and the community residential units in Rotunda. Often in places like KwaThemba, not one but two residents are given the same stand, and further destroying dreams. In Emfuleni, at least 70 homes have been damaged and 13 families have been left homeless after years of neglect and corruption with R872 million lost by the municipality through fraud and corruption. They do not care about bringing housing to the people; they only care about ways to make themselves and their cronies richer.
The DA will create a single national housing list, linking every local municipality to eliminate the current corruption ensuring that only the real owners live in them. The 144 Life Esidimeni patients
who died and the 17 who are still missing two years later, they also had dreams. There is no closure for these families. There have been inexcusable delays in payouts to the victims' families, blamed on technical issues, while no action has been taken against Qedani Mahlangu or Brian Hlongwa. The DA will build a caring social assistance system as a safety net for child headed households, the old and disabled, ensuring the most vulnerable in our society are properly cared for, not left to die in unthinkable conditions, like the Life Esidimeni patients.
The DA will provide new and sufficient mobile clinics for existing settlements whereas this government cannot even provide clean linen. In Vosloorus, the Thelle Mogoerane Hospital cancelled operations due to a shortage of clean linen. The Dunswart Provincial Laundry run by the ANC- led government Department of Health cannot even provide that service. The DA wants Gauteng to be the golden opportunity province, where people can realise their dreams in a thriving economy, where there is a job in every home, where people feel safe and secure, excited about what tomorrow and the future holds. As the DA transformed the Western Cape, under the leadership of Helen Zille, the DA will transform Gauteng, where our people deserve to dream again. The DA shares that dream. A dream we call one South Africa for All. [Time expired.] [Applause.]