ANC Gauteng chairman Paul Mashatile is expected to be the main speaker and ANC president Jacob Zuma is billed as a guest speaker.
|||Johannesburg – The African National Congress says it hopes to fill the 94 000-seat FNB Stadium bordering Soweto in Johannesburg on Saturday for the Gauteng launch of the ANC August 3 municipal elections manifesto.
In April the ANC failed to fill the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth, which has a smaller capacity, during the ANC’s national election manifesto launch.
The official programme is set to start at 11am, but shortly after 10am less than a quarter of the stadium seats had been filled.
ANC Gauteng chairman Paul Mashatile is expected to be the main speaker and ANC president Jacob Zuma is billed as a guest speaker.
Addressing the media on Saturday morning, Mashatile said the ANC was hopeful of a successful event but noted that this was not a national manifesto launch, merely a provincial one.
The names of five ANC local regions – Tshwane, West Rand, Sedibeng, Johannesburg, and Ekurhuleni – were to be seen displayed in the stadium.
Mashatile confirmed that 1800 buses were on the way from various regions.
African News Agency (ANA)