MEET SOME OF OUR MEMBERS

Robert	Graham	Sasha	Mandisa	Alvin
Gayle	Themba	Mark	Abasha	Krasimir

Robert says :  I grew up poor. I have seen the suffering of my own family and those around me. My whole adult life I have worked hard. Many long hours. I am a qualified builder and thought that after 1994 things would get better. I started my own business but it has only got worse. Many are suffering now more than before. How are we supposed to survive if we cannot get work? I have learnt that I have been wrong to think that parties such as the ANC or DA can ever make things better. My wife spoke to me one night and reminded me that were Christians and that we had to trust God for our future. Now after all this time I am going to do that. I will vote CDA because it is only them that believe the same as me. They will bring change to South Africa – but not because they are better – but because they trust God. They know that if we want to fix our country we must do it God’s way. I have no choice but to stand with them – for my children. I do not want them having to suffer like we have done. They deserve better. To Top

Graham says : I grew up in Zimbabwe and spent far too many of my years on wasted dreams. After so many years of heartache and regret, including a wasted marriage I finally found Christ and have accepted him as my Saviour and absolute Lord of my life.  I now own my own business and have married again to a wonderful, wonderful woman. Sally is what most Parties still fascinated with colour, would call a coloured and our marriage is evidence that people can move away from the past if we let God do it for us. I get angry when I hear other parties such as the ANC and DA still going on about race and colour after all this time For me there is no choice when it comes to voting. As a committed Christian I MUST vote according to that which I believe in. How can I say I do not believe in abortion or pornography but then vote for Parties that made these evils possible? I am extremely saddened when I look at our beautiful country and see what is being done to it. “As for me and my household we will serve the Lord” and vote CDA  To Top

Sasha says : What hope is there for young South Africans? Most youth are desperate and scared. They do not really believe in South Africa. Young girls and women have to live in fear of being raped – and knowing that very little is being done about it. I am nineteen, matriculated and still trying to find what I want to do with my future. This is a difficult age for young adults. We have so many uncertainties. I want at least one certainly in my life – that our government respects God and will make sure that He comes first. If I can be sure of that, I can be sure that we have a future I can believe in. I am the future of this country. One day my generation will govern. I want to be sure that I take that responsibility seriously. I am definitely voting CDA and will make sure that everyone I know does the same.   To Top

Mandisa says : I am a young women in my twenties and have a young child. I have dreams of working in a bank or in administration but what chance is there for me? There are too many people looking for work. And the ANC has brought so much corruption. Everywhere you have to pay somebody to get a job. I still live in a shack and have to get electricity and water from my neighbour. This is no way to bring up my child.  I also have my sister staying with us because she cannot get work. I work as a cleaner to support us all but it is difficult. I am tired of always having hardship. Of never knowing what we will do each month. What will I do when my child must go to school? I know that voting CDA is right. Our country is dying because people no longer look to God for answers. I have made mistakes and our country has made mistakes. Now is the time to bring a new government. People who care and really love our country and its people. This way I know we can dream again. I can hope again to get a proper house and the job I want.    To Top

Alvin says : I have never had big dreams of just having money for the sake of it. In a way I rejected society because of all it’s faults. Very much of what I am is just trying to be different from all the wrong in the world and in our country. But the one dream I have in common with everybody is to have peace. To live in a country where violence is not the norm and not accepted. All elections have brought us in a new form of violence. Now it is not the government bringing violence through apartheid but government spreading violence by its own corruption. Government killing babies by abortion. Government helping criminals more than decent people. Government being part of every murder and rape because they do nothing serious about it. The CDA just raises hope in me. Just the fact that it is an alliance – people coming together – instead of another breakaway group of people arguing, is good. There is just something in their commitment to doing what is right. It is exciting to see people so serious about real change and real peace. Many of the ANC, DA and ID councillors are people we all know – some from the days of the struggle – and we see their lies and corruption. How can we go on supporting them when we have seen them do nothing for us in almost 15 years? I want peace – I want change. I want CDA    To Top

Gayle says : Most people have no idea of what it is like, as a South African, living overseas. We are in Dublin, Ireland. It is like you never belong. There is a longing deep inside be in the place of your own birth. Just a photo from family and friends is enough to make the tears start running. And there are many of us here – from all cultures. It can make your whole day being in the shops and hearing Xhosa or another SA language spoken from the next aisle. We immediately talk – and the talk is sad. Most of us never wanted to leave. Fear of crime. No work.  Sick of the corruption and nepotism. Having to belong to the ANC to get work. Watching services and infrastructure deteriorate. A young girl, Thembi, who is extremely qualified and works here in a hospital, immigrated because her interviewer in SA told her to leave because she was not ANC. A beautiful, talented young girl who spends many nights at our home crying to go home – but cannot. We love our country. Even if we are working elsewhere. And we definitely love our country more than the government destroying it back home. We support the CDA because quite simply, they have the will power to change SA for the better. We will definitely be telling every South African we know to vote with us!   To Top

Themba says : Proverbs says “When the righteous rule the people will rejoice but when the wicked rule the people will groan”. I am a minister of the Word and believe that all of God’s Word is true. If He says that we will only prosper under Godly government then I believe it – and will vote according to His will and His instruction. Being a member of the CDA just says clearly to everyone who and what I am. A child of God that wants to bring all of society under His authority. I do not separate Sunday from Monday. He is God of all or nothing at all. I refuse to separate my faith from everything around me. I believe that God has a plan for this nation of ours and we, the Christians have an important part to play in that plan. One thing I know for sure, is that this plan cannot begin to unfold while we are mocking Him. As long as our education system raises unGoldly children, as long as we murder the unborn and as long as we allow the filth to continue in our magazines and on TV we will not see His hand move. Now more than ever we have to take a stand as Christians and say we are not ashamed of what we believe. And because we believe, we are willing to fight for that which we believe in. We are willing to vote for that which we believe in. For this reason I am CDA. I believe.  To Top

Mark says : Since I can remember, I have had a social conscience and fought for the underdog. Stood up for what is right. As a young South African in the apartheid era, this automatically meant being involved in the struggle and being a member of the ANC. Like most others, I lived in post 1994 with disappointment – and hurt. Our dream had been stolen from us by self seeking politicians and corruption. I watched our country slowly dying under ANC arrogance – and yet where was I to go politically? No other party offered any real solutions – definitely not the DA with their petty opposition tactics and having no real support base amongst the majority of South Africans.  In fact, in many ways, they represented exactly what we had tried to rid ourselves of. And then I was introduced to the concept of Biblical governance. I had been a Christian for many, many years but never related it to my involvement in politics. Suddenly I was excited again. This was real hope. This was an opportunity for real change. This was a chance to stop relying on man for the solutions but to look directly to the Creator himself for policies that would help realise all of our dreams. There can be no turning back. The suffering has carried on for too long. Too many people died bringing us our freedoms we take for granted. We carry on the struggle in their memory – but this time with the knowledge that our dreams are achievable. Me – I am CDA – all the way!  To Top

Abasha says: I used to be a staunch Muslim before giving my life to Christ. Of course since then my life has never been the same. For someone who has never been tied up in Islam, they have no idea of the bondage a woman lives under. They cannot appreciate just how much I value the freedom I have found in my Saviour. My life has taken on a new meaning. I live with a purpose now. There is a sense of destiny to my life. And best of all, I do not simply live to serve but to enjoy a relationship with God. From that relationship I have learnt His will. Have learnt obedience. Have learnt to enjoy my job in marketing with joy I never had before. I work for pleasure! This transformation that has taken place in my life is what I wish for our whole country. That all our people can enjoy the real freedom that can only come through Christ. Freedom from economic, social and all other bondages. Freedom that says we can truly live in a just society. These freedoms are not only promised to us individually but also as nations – if we will humble ourselves to Him. My membership of CDA is humbling myself politically. My voting CDA is my political obedience. He has done too much for me to do otherwise.   To Top

Krasimir says : I was born and raised in Bulgaria before immigrating with my wife and child to South Africa as an adult. I immediately fell in love with this county and as soon as I could, applied for and got my SA citizenship.  I have always seen South Africa, almost like an adoptive parent. Someone you love for what they have done for you. And when they hurt you hurt. When they are sad, you are a sad. Today I am sad. And I am hurt. For my adoptive nation hurts. I and my family have lived through many transitions in Bulgaria – before communism, through communism and after the fall of communism. We have witnessed the devastating effects of socialist thinking on raising generations of people with no faith other than in their own strength. My father died because of the denial of freedom under communism. My parents suffer as blatant greed runs rampant in the new “capitalist” Bulgaria. And I see man trying these same things in South Africa. While our people suffer. This is not a time for trying that which has already failed in may nations across the globe. It is a time for something new. Something seated in deep, uncompromising values. I believe it is time for the CDA.   To Top