“All of you sitting here are being paid by the ANC government for free every month. All of you. Without doing anything.”
This was ANC national chairperson Gwede Mantashe’s first remark on Thursday as he greeted and asked the ages of a group of six elderly women who were sitting outside one of the homes in Daveyton in Ekurhuleni, where he was conducting the party’s campaign for the upcoming local elections.
Mantashe told the elderly women as they tried to raise their issues that the apartheid government had been paying elderly black people once a quarter before the ANC government took over and improved it.
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