The ANC has been under pressure to up its game in the province since Jacob Zuma announced last year that he would endorse the MK party
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.One person told Mantashe that her family was affiliated with Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe party and closed her door as Mantashe approached her.
Since then, polls have indicated that the MK party would take a chunk of the ANC’s voter share in the province. In the 2019 election, the party received 55.47%, dropping from the 65.31% it had received in the 2014 elections in KwaZulu-Natal. Zuma was credited for the ANC’s result in 2014. Mantashe was optimistic that the party would retain its majority, but he received a mixed reaction in KwaZulu-Natal this week.
Mpumelele Ndlela, who is unemployed, said she was still debating why she should vote for the ANC again. “I can promise that I’m going to vote for you but you won’t see me. The money must come first before everything,” he said. “I also want a tender because I cut grass, I supply and I do anything. I also want a volunteer who will give birth to a boy child.”
“They come to us and lie. We know there’s nothing they will do for us. We will vote for the ANC because we know what they can give us.”“The children are getting grants, they go to school for free, they are being fed at school and they go to university for free,” he said.
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