ANC opts for young candidates to win municipal elections

A quarter of ANC candidates for the municipal election are young people, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Sunday.

“With our youngest candidates being just 20 years of age, they will bring greater energy and innovation to local government, and a far deeper understanding of the needs of young people,” said Ramaphosa at the party’s preview of its candidates in Parktown North, Johannesburg.

Young voters played a vital role in the August 12 general elections in neighbouring Zambia, where the youth vote ensured that the leader of the opposition United Party for National Development, Hakainde Hichilema, scored a landslide victory to unseat Edgar Lungu of the Patriotic Front, making Hichilema the second opposition leader in southern Africa to defeat the governing leader.

“While this is a great achievement, we will not rest until at least half of all ANC candidates and half of all ANC public representatives in all spheres of government are women.” The ANC said in choosing candidates for the next term of local government, it was determined that they deepen community participation in the process and assign oversight of the selection process to an electoral committee led by the elders of our movement.

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