Johannesburg – The DA welcomed on Saturday several tribal chiefs from Limpopo as new members of the party.

Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille said she met and welcomed about 40 chiefs and elders around Maleboho, near Bochum, to the party. She said they had expressed interest in the DA.

“The people of Limpopo are still in need of basic services like water. Many are without those essentials that government is supposed to provide,” she said.

Zille said under the right leadership the province had “great potential”.

“We won a ward here recently and we believe our work and policies will speak for themselves in the province.”

She was confident her party would perform very well in Limpopo in the national elections next year. SAPA