The Good Party and Rise Mzansi are joining forces to field a Cape Town mayoral candidate.
The parties are challenging the DA’s long-standing control of the metro.
Good Party leader Patricia de Lille said they had been working together with Rise Mzansi for three years already.“What we are doing for the local government elections is that we are pulling our support bases, our sources and everything together. And then instead of competing in each ward, we are going to have candidates from both parties in both wards.
“I’m sure you’ll understand that there’s going to be a big contestation for ideas and the fragmentation of, especially, the opposition voters.
“And so we are happy that we are busy integrating the two parties. We’re going to announce one male candidate who is going to be supported by both parties.
The supporters are integrating, they are mobilising together, they are planning together and all rally behind the candidate that we announced today,” she said.
Rise Mzansi leader Songezo Zibi said change in South Africa must begin in Cape Town.
“It is important that the story of how South Africa changes today, or that changes in the future, begins in Cape Town. Because the walls of apartheid began to fall when the United Democratic Fund was founded in Cape Town.
“And that was because ordinary people, community organizations and social movements decided no more and no further. This system is going to fall. That decision needs to be taken again,” Zibi said.