'White people caused cyclone Idai.': A new campaign uses wild election claims to encourage SA to vote

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'White people caused cyclone Idai.': A new campaign uses wild election claims to encourage SA to vote | BISouthAfrica

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posters with eye-popping quotes from politicians have been distributed in Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Cape Town to encourage South Africans to vote.Advertising agency Grid Worldwide, which launched the campaign, said it aims to get apathetic voters to the polls.More than 5,000 posters with controversial quotes from South African politicians have been plastered across Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town to encourage voters to cast their ballots on 8 May.

Quotes from former DA leader Helen Zille, EFF leader Julius Malema, BLF leader Andile Mngxitama and former president Jacob Zuma are all featured in the The quotes are all followed by the pay-off line: “If you don’t vote, you may as well agree.” “Colonialism wasn’t all bad” one poster reads, with the quote attributed to a “former political party leader". This is presumably in reference to

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