Note to Editors: The following speech was delivered as a member statement during the sitting today by DA Member of the Provincial Legislature, CJ Steyl.
Honourable Speaker,
The Democratic Alliance calls on all North West residents 18 years of age and older to ensure that they are correctly registered to vote in this year’s local government elections on 04 November 2026.
The IEC has announced the weekend of June 20 and 21, 2026, as the National Voter Registration Weekend. The DA encourages all eligible voters to use this opportunity to ensure that they are correctly registered.
There are about 800 000 registered voters in North West that did not vote during the 2024 national general election.
Many of these stay-away voters believe that voting does not make a difference. Many of these voters also believe that politics do not matter.
Today, we state unequivocally that politics matter, and by not exercising your right to vote, it leads to the wrong kind of politics impacting your daily life.
The water crisis facing hundreds of thousands of North West residents is caused by the wrong kind of politics.
The more than a million unemployed residents throughout North West are unemployed because of the wrong kind of politics.
The dangerous pothole-ridden roads are created by the wrong kind of politics.
It is wrong political decisions that cause raw sewage to flow down streets and poison communities.
The rampant criminal onslaught that continues to terrorise North West residents, that robs them of their property, that tears communities and families apart through robbery, rape and murder is a result of the wrong kind of politics.
As we have seen during the testimony at the Madlanga Commission, it is the wrong kind of political decisions that led to the capture of the SAPS.
It is wrong political decisions that have made electricity unaffordable for most households,
It is wrong political decisions, that see residents now pay almost R30 a litre for petrol.
So, when residents say they don’t care about politics, politics has an impact on the quality of life and the access to opportunity they and their children will have.
There are 1,7 million registered voters in North West. On Wednesday, 4 November 2026, they have an opportunity to take ownership over their lives, to reject the wrong kind of politics they have been subjected to by the ANC for the last 30 years.
There is an opportunity to vote for the right kind of politics. To vote for the DA. Not because I stand here and can make a wild claim, but because 17 million South Africans throughout South Africa, in the Western Cape, in Kouga in the Eastern Cape, in Midvaal in Gauteng, in Umngeni in KwaZulu-Natal, all voted for the right kind of politics. DA politics.
DA politics that creates economic growth and jobs, DA politics that delivers clean water, sustained electricity supply, road maintenance, clean government and working hard to build safer, cleaner communities that we can all be proud of.
So, a vote in 2026, is a vote for either the DA’s right kind of politics, or a continuation of the wrong, corrupt, self-serving politics of the ANC.
Let’s free ourselves from this abusive cycle of failed ANC governance and vote DA to get North West working.