Final campaign push by political parties before elections
Parties ratcheted up their election campaigns on Saturday as they accused each other of failure to deliver where they governed and promised voters to improve service delivery. The ANC sent in its big guns to the Eastern Cape, Gauteng and the Free State in the last stretch before the polls.
ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa campaigned in Uitenhage and party chairperson Gwede Mantashe was in Dordrecht, both in the Eastern Cape. “If we truly want to reform our politics, and thereby reform our country, the best thing we can do is to bring the ANC below 50%,” Maimane said. He said they had plans to double the social grant received by the elderly because the elderly were the ones taking care of homes and ensuring that the children were fed and said that they should be given more money so that “African children can shine through our grannies”.
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