DA leader says the ANC is in terminal decline and trying to cling to the comrade state as a lifeline [SOUND]

# DA leader Geordin Hill-Lewis has criticised president Cyril Ramaphosa’s claim in his party’s local government manifesto that ANC-run municipalities will enjoy an advantage because their mayors can turn to a comrade in national government. He says this is contrary to the reality and the spirit of the government of national unity. Hill-Lewis says Ramaphosa is asking South Africans to vote ANC only because its comrades occupy positions in the state: