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Johannesburg - Freedom means nothing unless you can use it to build a better life, Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille said on Saturday. <\/p>\n
\"Freedom means little if you cannot find a job. Freedom means even less if our children have no textbooks,\" she told delegates at the party's federal congress in Boksburg, east of Johannesburg. <\/p>\n
\"Freedom means nothing if it gives politicians license to steal people's money.\" <\/p>\n
Zille said freedom lost its value when people lived in constant fear of criminals, and those who suffered under apartheid remained trapped in poverty. <\/p>\n
She said there were many people who had not yet used their freedom. <\/p>\n
\"Many of them are unemployed. Some live in informal settlements without services... Intlupheko ibuhlungu [poverty is painful] and the gap between the rich and poor is much too wide,\" she said. <\/p>\n
Zille said if somebody gained a little more freedom, they were to use it to build a better life and to transform society. <\/p>\n
She also said there was a myth that Cape Town was more unequal than other South African cities. <\/p>\n
\"This is not true. Dis eenvoudig nie waar nie [This is simply not true].\" <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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