Ramaphosa urges voters to back ANC before South African municipal elections
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on IOL
Three days before South Africa’s 4 November municipal elections, Cyril Ramaphosa defended the ANC’s strength at the party’s final election rally in Mdantsane. He called on its supporters to mobilise voters and rejected polls predicting an ANC decline, reports IOL.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa called on voters to support the ANC at the party’s final rally before the 4 November municipal elections. He rejected polls predicting a decline for the African National Congress and said the party would remain ahead of its rivals, according to IOL.
At the Siyanqoba rally in Mdantsane, in the city of KuGompo, Eastern Cape province, Ramaphosa urged supporters to go out and vote and not to assume that a large crowd would guarantee votes. He attributed the lower turnout among some ANC voters in 2024 to the belief that the party would win anyway.
The president said the campaign had brought to the fore workers’ concerns about their employment conditions, women’s concerns about gender-based violence and those of unemployed young graduates. He also highlighted the ANC’s presence in every municipal ward and described its competitors as “Mickey Mouse parties”, reports IOL.
The rally concluded the ANC’s mobilisation ahead of the election, following Ramaphosa’s call for municipalities to become engines of job creation, announced on 1 November. It followed the president’s mobilisation in eMfuleni on 18 October for the municipal elections.
