SAfm, Friday evening

The supporters, the members, because all that we do as a part, we do it for them. I was going to say, what message do you have for those that put the little X next to the ATM board, next to the ATM name? They must trust that we're going to continue representing them because we view their votes as them giving us a mandate to speak on their behalf. That is why we are making an appeal to them that they must follow, especially this process of negotiations for coalisions, because that's where decisions are taken as to will you work with this.

Party or don't work with this party is the program of action, what are the agreements in terms of coalition that they made public. So for us, it becomes critical that the voters must not think their work ended on Wednesday, but the work continues in terms of ensuring that what we committed to pre-Wednesday, how we are now in terms of how we do things, we must live up to those commitments. There's talks about talks.

At the moment, there's even talks about talks about talks. Where does ATM fit in this? There's a couple of organizations that have greeted and said, No, we need to talk, but there's nothing concrete as yet. But we are aware that I think most of the discussions will start happening in the afternoon tomorrow because that's where things are going, the picture is going to be more solid. But, however, for us, we've been very clear on the fact that we want a coalition that is based on a program of action. 2024 were approached by the AE.

They asked us to join the GNU, but we said, in the absence of a clear program of action as to what then the government will do, it's difficult for us to say we can form part because what do we do? Secondly, we want a coalition agreement that is written, signed, and made public so that all of the people get to see exactly what is happening. Because the coalition agreements that we have currently find that people use the coalition to get positions.

Get tenders. But once there's a clear coalition agreement that's made public, it assists also even the coalition so that you don't have people behind the scenes making demands because you've handled the coalition engagements in a manner that is transparent. And once it's transparent, it takes away the, I could say, the powers behind the scenes. So that is what we're looking for. Yeah, if it's written down, that we know what it is, everybody can relate to it. Exactly.

Most importantly, local government has been an increase in these motions of no confidence. It contributes to instability. And you find that these motions of no confidence, they're not principle-based. It's just a question of people, you know, if they don't get a tender, get a position, then they will be, okay, we're leaving. Motion of no confidence. But if the quality agreement is made public, if someone wants to say they are leaving, they need to say because there's failures in these priorities.