2019 ELECTIONS: In Eastern Cape, Ramaphosa vows to make South Africa great again By Carien Du Plessis carienduplessis
There was a moment on Sunday 28 April in the kraal of Chief Manzolwandle, roughly a 10km drive outside Mqanduli on a newly graded gravel road in the rolling green hills of old Transkei, about 40km from Mthatha, when President Cyril Ramaphosa’s security detail appeared a little more tense than usual.
Ramaphosa made an express point of mentioning that he thinks Mqanduli should be the first place to get these, and that deputy minister of labour Patekile Holomisa recommended that this be the case. Despite an enthusiastic show for the party at the small rally in front of the chief’s place, it really is the vastly popular Bantu Holomisa’s UDM that still rules in many of the wards.
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