While the ANC marches against freedom of expression tomorrow – Tuesday 29 May 2012 – at the Goodman Gallery, the DA will be protesting in solidarity with the plight of those suffering as a result of the healthcare meltdown in the Eastern Cape and Limpopo.
Nothing could illustrate the priorities of each party better. The ANC’s focus is on shutting down the open society to protect a powerful clique from scrutiny. The DA’s focus is to find ways to build the opportunity society so that all South Africans have a shot at true freedom.
DA MPL, John Cupido will open the Eastern Cape picket with Patricia Kopane (MP), DA Shadow Minister of Health, outside the Dukumbana building in Bhisho at 10:00.
Memorandums of demands will be submitted in solidarity with:
- People unable to get treatment at local facilities due to nurse and doctor shortages
- Patients unable to access life-saving chronic medication
- Staff and patients coping with crumbling facilities and a lack of equipment
The DA intend to demand that solutions to the basic governance problems common to both provinces be implemented. The solutions that the DA will be calling for are based on tested methods being applied where they govern.
Pickets will begin at 10:00 on Tuesday morning and continue throughout the week.
Cupido said; “We must not allow factional mobilisation within the ANC to detract from the substantive issues affecting the people of South Africa.”
