Your vote can turn Bitou true Blue
14 September 2014
Note to editors: The following remarks were delivered by DA Leader Helen Zille in the Simunye Thusong Centre Hall, KwaNokuthula. Hundreds of supporters attended this rally ahead of by-elections in Plettenberg Bay on 17 September.
Today as we hold our final campaign rally before the residents of Bitou's ward 7 go to the polls, we must not forget thatWednesday's vote is the most crucial since 2011 for the people of this municipality.
Ward 7 in Bitou is an example of how voters in wards across South Africa continue to turn more towards the DA with each election.
In 2011 the ANC comfortably won this ward, but three years later, in the 2014 elections, the DA secured a majority in this ward, winning 48% of the vote to the ANC's 45% - a big 16% swing to the DA.