The Democratic Alliance will launch its national election registration campaign with a rally in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town, next Tuesday, the party said on Thursday.
Briefing the media at Parliament, DA communications director Nick Clelland-Stokes said the campaign was aimed at unregistered DA supporters, as well those people who were currently undecided about who they might vote for.
”In addition, it will reinforce the DA’s positioning as a positive force for change with both registered and unregistered voters. It fits in perfectly with the party’s overall rationale, and with the ‘coalition for change’, which we have formed with the Inkatha Freedom Party,” he said.
The campaign would be built around certain themes. In particular, the DA would be ”asking people to register for job creation, against crime, and against corruption”.
But it would also deal with other important issues, such as poverty, HIV/Aids, education and health services.
DA leader Tony Leon would be the main speaker at Tuesday’s rally, while three further rallies were being planned for Soweto, Durban and Port Elizabeth over the next two weeks.
During this period, the party also plans to display about 70 000 posters, as a DA Youth project, and distribute 3,6-million pamphlets, as well as make direct contact
with unregistered voters, Clelland-Stokes said. – Sapa