South Africa has struggled enough. It is time for us to be able to take control of our own situation and accelerate development in our communities, our nation and our country. There is still a long and uphill road ahead of us, but we must at last be able to walk that road in the shoes we have chosen for ourselves. We need to don the hiking boots of development. It is useless if those dealing out the equipment to solve our difficulties and walk our path, are not familiar with the road and are simply sending truckloads of tennis shoes down the conveyor belt.
Every community faces different problems.
We are all dealing with the issues of unemployment, lack of service delivery and poor education. But each community has different priorities according to their individual needs. The IFP has always advocated federalism as the best system of governance to empower individual people to contribute to tailor-making solutions that work. Federalism ensures that the real power to govern is vested as close to the ground as will be effective. If, through the ballot box, the IFP wins local government, we will continue to pursue this ideal as the best possible form of democracy.