Star2.jpg DA political school lays groundwork for 2019 Luyolo Mkentane, The Star, Johannesburg, 27 September 2016 Following its incredible performance during last month's municipal elections, where it wrested several crucial metros from ANC control, the DA is already gearing up for the national elections in 2019. In Joburg, the party holds a political school every second Sunday where its activists and members discuss tactics they would use in the build-up to the general election, where they hope to completely oust the ANC from power. DA MP and head of the Joburg political school, Makashule Gana, told The Star that at their gatherings, they also discuss strategies aimed at consolidating their power base in the metros already under their control in the country's richest province. These include the metros of Joburg and Tshwane, and Midvaal Municipality. The DA was also preoccupied with relaunching branches in the province in an effort to strengthen them going into 2019. Next session October 9 "We are preparing the ground for the 2019 elections. The next session (of the political school) is on October 9. Our discussions centre around what needs to be done now that the political environment has changed, especially here in Gauteng. "We are no longer an opposition party but a party in government. Therefore, as political leaders and activists, we need to adopt a different posture from the one we had on August 2. We can't continue to behave like an opposition party. We need to show that we are ready to govern Gauteng," said Gana. He said they wanted to extend their reach in other provinces where they still occupy the opposition benches. Gana said the turnout at the political schools had been great. "An average of 40 people come to our political school discussions in Joburg. People who want to contribute to us winning and who want to learn from one another are welcome." From: <http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/da-political-school-lays-groundwork-for- 2019-2073480> http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/da-political-school-lays-groundwork-for-2 019-2073480 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 14197 (20160929) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/005001d21a33%2445203a80%24cf60af80%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
