President Jacob Zuma urged Tembisa residents to unite as black people and vote for the ANC in the local elections. (VIDEO)
|||President Jacob Zuma took the ANC’s election campaign to Tembisa in Ekurhuleni on Wednesday, urging residents to unite as black people in order to ensure a victory for the ANC in the local government elections.
Zuma was accompanied by the party’s Ekurhuleni mayoral candidate Mzwandile Masina and Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba. He also encouraged the more than 200 residents, most of them wearing ANC T-shirts and caps, to vote for the ruling party.
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“White people, they all vote even though they are a small percentage of the population because they know the importance of voting,” said Zuma in IsiZulu.
He told supporters to vote on August 3 and not to think that because black people made up most South Africans, that someone else would vote on their behalf.
“Don’t say that because we are many, others voted and it doesn’t matter if you don’t vote… no then you have not understood the importance of changing our country,” said Zuma.
The president kicked off his door-to-door campaign with a visit to the township’s hostel where he met election hostel leaders.
Labour Bureau