Calling on South Africans to Shape the Plans to Fix South Africa
28 May 2020
In August this year, we will launch a new political party arising from The People’s Dialogue which saw millions of South Africans participating in discussions aimed at shaping a shared future for our country.
Through their submissions, participants put forward innovative and workable solutions to some of the country’s greatest challenges and expressed their commitment to the project of fixing South Africa.
Today, I am calling on South Africans for a second time, asking them to volunteer their services to participate in a series of weekly discussions that will help us refine the values of our new political party – non-racialism, a free-market economy, social justice, the rule of law, and electoral reform – and translate these into workable policy solutions.
The truth is that South Africa is a country beset by social injustice and faced with serious challenges in our economy, education, criminal justice system and healthcare, amongst others. Yet, 18.6 million South Africans of voting-age, who did not vote in 2019, have no faith in the solutions put forward by these parties.