Steenhuisen slams 'pointless' National Dialogue
DA leader John Steenhuisen says the National Dialogue will amount to nothing unless government takes real action against corruption.
"If those things are to be implemented by the very people who are involved in state capture, corruption, maladministration and have shown a middle finger to Parliament and the general public through a farcical process of appointments.
"If you are going to rely on those people to be the ones implementing your plans, then its going to end up like every other plan, issue and talk shop that has happened for the last 20 years."
The DA announced its withdrawal from the dialogue last week in PRO-test of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to fire Deputy Trade Minister Andrew Whitfield.
READ: Ramaphosa labels DA ‘hypocrites’ for dialogue bailout
Ramaphosa slammed the DA's move calling it anti-democratic.
The Presidency says Whitfield was dismissed after he travelled to the United States without prior approval - saying it was a serious breach of protocol.
Steenhuisen says South Africa needs decisive delivery on its development plan." A dialogue isn't going to feed anybody. It's not going to build a single house.
"It's not going to create a single other job. And nothing we do or say is going to do that unless we get out there and vigorously implement the medium term development plan, which is the adopted program of government."
