GOOD Media Statement
13 March 2024
Patricia De Lille will be the GOOD candidate for Premier of the Western Cape.
De Lille, or Aunty Pat as she is fondly known, offers voters a tried and tested leader with unmatched experience that is necessary to attend to, and eradicate, the suffering experienced by the majority of the Province’s residents.
When political parties present plans and manifestos to voters, it’s important for voters to also consider who will be charged with implementing these plans.
With De Lille, voters can rest assured that she will not stop fighting until the work is done.
Aunty Pat is the kind of leader that voters deserve to have in their corner.
Her fight for a fairer South Africa started long before 1994 and it will continue long after 2024.
Moreover, De Lille is the only candidate for Premier who has executive experience in all three spheres of government.
She has served as a Member of Parliament and Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Transport and as an MEC for Social Development in the Western Cape. She is the only Executive Mayor of Cape Town, since 1994, to serve a full 5 year term of office and then get re-elected with an increased majority.
While she was at the helm of the Cape Town government she has been the only Mayor of Cape Town to get 4 consecutive clean audits.
In 2019, consistent with the practice (since 1994) of having an opposition Leader serve in the National cabinet, De Lille was appointed as Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure. Here she cleaned up a department that had been riddled with corruption scandals and managed to rapidly accelerate the redistribution of public land.
When the President appointed her to sort out Tourism, as the new Minister of Tourism last year, she immediately got to work canceling the scandalous R1 billion Tottenham Hotspurs deal.
There is no doubt that she has the experience and the guts to take on any lethargy in government to make sure that the right plans get implemented swiftly and within the law.
De Lille is the only woman to lead a politically represented party and is the only woman leader to have started two political parties which won seats in national, provincial and local government.
GOOD proudly presents one of South Africa’s most competent and experienced political leaders to lead the Western Cape Province and to get things done.
Media Enquiries:
Janke Tolmay, GOOD Media Manager
Cell: 073 367 1223
Email: janke@forgood.org.za