The UDM leader's comments come after Ramaphosa discouraged a crowd in Seshego, Limpopo, against voting for “smaller parties who say they are going to lead.”
United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa has cautioned President Cyril Ramaphosa against having a “loose tongue” when talking about small political parties.
Ramaphosa was in Seshego — the home town of Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema — on Tuesday, campaigning for the ANC ahead of the national elections set to take place next month. “What Ramaphosa has said seems to be in relation to the EFF, which we should distinguish from ‘small parties’ in the broader sense,” says analyst Tasneem Essop, a researcher at the University of the Witwatersrand’s Society Work and Politics Institute .
“They can be seen as small in relation to the ANC certainly, but not in the same vein of talking about the parties that are looking at under 2% of the vote, many of them will not get representation in parliament and so on, so we should not muddle the two arguments.that without the efforts of smaller political parties, Jacob Zuma would still be in power as president.
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