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THE SMART NEWS SOURCE | Feb 10 2012 23:33 | LAST UPDATED Feb 10 2012 23:33 |
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The Democratic Alliance's (DA) final campaign for Wednesday's general elections revealed vast support in the Blue Down area, between Cape Town and Somerset West on Tuesday. Party leader Helen Zille was mobbed in a tumultuous welcome on her arrival at the New Life community church in Malibu Village. Her security staff had their hands full controlling the crowd of supporters wanting to shake hands, and even just touch her. Supporters spoken to, vocally announced their intentions to vote for "die witkop [the blonde]". After making her way into the packed hall through a sea of blue DA T-shirts, Zille urged all to vote DA. "The DA would make history in the Western Cape on Wednesday because a sitting ANC government will be voted out of office," she said. "This would show the world that South Africa was a real democracy in which a government could be voted out. "The blue tide of the DA will wash away the ANC," she said. In this regard the Western Cape was years ahead of the rest of South Africa.  CONTINUES BELOW Zille pledged that following a DA victory in the province, the party would work its fingers to the bone to ensure good government and the betterment of people's lives. She emphasised that every vote would count, especially in the proportional representation system. Zille is touring a number of areas in the Western Cape peninsula aboard the DA's 'Vote to Win' campaign bus. -- Sapa TOPICS IN THIS ARTICLE
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