DA leader Mmusi Maimane. Picture: MARK WEST
THE DA has developed a cellular application for its volunteers to canvass in black areas where the party is being prevented from doing so.
It was also announced that the party would march on the ANC-led Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality on Thursday, two days before the ANC holds its election manifesto launch there.
On the new phone application, DA leader Mmusi Maimane said the party was unable to go door to door in certain areas because community members were hostile to it.
Yesterday, he unveiled the app which, he said, would empower DA members and activists on the ground as they volunteered to sell the DA to the electorate ahead of the local elections. Saying the local elections would be a “rigorous battle”, Maimane told how he was blocked from entering an IEC registration station in Tshwane at the weekend by ANC members.
They claimed to be parents at the school used as the station.
“They said I could not get access to the school, but the school is a voting district proclaimed by the IEC, and, as a party political leader, I am entitled to go in there.”
On the phone app, Maimane said it was supported by Android and iTunes and could be used to “knock on people’s doors” and to host house meetings.
It would also allow people to check their registration status and recruit members, so giving “power to the electorate wherever they are, including in hostile areas”.
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