WATCH: To fix SA, govt should resign in shame - Steenhuisen
Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen believes
South Africa is facing three crises as a nation.
Steenhuisen delivered the party's alternative State of the Nation Address on Monday morning.
He believes South Africa is not only facing crises due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the sluggish economy, but also a “crisis of democracy”.
"And the only immediate way out of this crisis, if we’re brutally honest, is for our government to resign in shame.
"However, we can say with near certainty that none of these three things is going to happen right away," said Steenhuisen.
He added government's delay in the procurement of the Covid-19 vaccine, when it was already available on the market, is a violation of its constitutional obligations.
"So when the president tells of plans to vaccinate two-thirds of the population by the end of the year, even if we could launch a programme that could target in excess of 100,000 vaccine shots a day. We simply won’t have the vaccines to cover even half that target.
"This is not because all those other bad countries hoarded the vaccines so we couldn’t buy them, as President Ramaphosa tried to spin it when speaking to the WEF crowd.
"It’s because we were simply nowhere when they were all queuing back in May, June and July 2020.”
Steenhuisen believes the country’s vaccination programme will only start late in the year.
Steenhuisen said the African National Congress' (ANC) policy is cadre deployment is the real form of state capture.
"We cannot correct our course until we see cadre deployment for what it is – state capture – and abandon it for good.
"But not only do we need to correctly identify the ANC’s state capture as the genesis of our country’s slide towards a failed state, we also need to correctly identify all those responsible for it," he said.
"Believing in a supposed good faction of the ANC that had no part in this state capture is nothing but naïve wishful thinking. No one has been more central to the deployment of party loyalists to positions in the state over the past decade than Cyril Ramaphosa himself."
The party has written a letter to the commission of inquiry into state capture, demanding that Ramaphosa reveal his role in the capturing of the state.
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