The country’s fifth Democratic election, South Africa has managed to garner more Democratic Alliance (DA) supporters than ever a CCTV Africa report said. In 2009, the DA earned one in six votes, but is now expected to earn one in five votes. This year, for the May 7, 2014 election, more youth have made it a point to take part in the nation’s politics.

“I believe the DA is going to bring a lot of changes. Originally, it was developed by the ANC, but now people want change,” one supporter said.

Another DA supporter at the May 5 rally told CCTV Africa reporters that the DA party is considered more trustworthy — especially when it comes to funds which have been donated by citizens.

Helen Zille, leader of the DA said in her rally speech that current president Jacob Zuma’s South African Communist Party has yet to create a plan that will benefit the economy and employment growth.

“Where the DA governs we manage the economy properly and cut corruption, so that thousands of new jobs are created. That’s why where the DA governs, unemployment is the lowest in South Africa,” she said. “It’s also why a report of the LED Network recently found that the DA-governed City of Cape Town is the most inclusive economy in the whole of South Africa.”

Zille continued on to say that a vote for the DA is a “no-brainer” as the past five years with Zuma in office were not good enough to sprout a promise for the next five years, if he is re-elected.

“It does not matter who you are, how talented you are or where you come from, whether you are black or white, educated or not educated. If you do not have a job you cannot begin to build a better life for yourself or your family,” Zille added, stressing the DA’s commitment to job creation.

“On Wednesday, each and every South African can make history with their vote! Every vote for the DA will help to make our country a much better place. It will help to end corruption, to start job creating economic growth, to provide guaranteed university funding to all qualifying matrics, and one million internships for people looking to get their first job. It will be a vote for change, a vote for jobs.”