President Cyril Ramaphosa introduced a sample of 18 bright young ANC candidates for the local government elections ahead of his party’s manifesto launch, the last of the big three parties to reveal their promises to voters.
“You should respect our people,” President Cyril Ramaphosa told 18 young ANC candidates for the local government elections. “They come first, and you come last. Never ever think you come first. Never ever think that you are better than they are.”
He warned them that they would encounter local government structures that are broken and have gone bankrupt – he failed to add that this is due to decades of neglect by the same party they have invested their futures in – and that their job was to “[roll up] your sleeves” and work to improve the situation.
From left: Kagisho Sonyoni, Mamadupi Teffo, Benjamin Gopane and Mojalefa Buti are the ANC’s youth candidates for the local government elections. “If we can fix this ANC, we will be in a good space,” Chikane told the 50-odd people seated in the airy hall. The crisis should be turned into an opportunity, he added, saying that it was difficult to believe the extent to which the ANC is failing the people in terms of service delivery, such that some Soweto residents have been without electricity for years. With this he was referring to Ramaphosa’s campaign in Soweto the previous weekend.
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