Scrolla.Africa delivers all you need to know ahead of the 29 May elections.
Umkhonto Wesizwe – Former president Jacob Zuma is taking it easy after a few recent health scares, including feeling dizzy and falling at his Kwadakwadunuse homestead in Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal. His family said the 82-year-old was in good health. Zuma was not at the Durban High Court this week when it ruled that the ANC had no copyright on the MK party’s name and logo and his election campaign diary has been scaled down.
DA – John Steenhuisen, the leader of the DA, has taken his party’s campaign to the Free State. The failure of former ANC Free State premier Ace Magashule’s new party, the African Congress for Transformation, to make it onto the ballot paper for the election, means thousands of his supporters are up for grabs. “The Free State has all the elements it needs to become a prosperous place, but it lacks the most important ingredient of all: a government that works for the people,” Steenhuisen said in Mangaung on Tuesday.
ANC – President Cyril Ramaphosa unveiled his five million jobs plan as part of the 20th-anniversary celebrations of the Expanded Public Works Programme at Buffalo City Stadium in East London. The power of the ANC Women’s League in the Eastern Cape was on full display as it pulled off one of its biggest blousing ceremonies at the Orient Theatre in East London on Tuesday. This shows that the ANCWL, the biggest group of organised women in SA politics, is not only growing but attracting younger black middle-class women to its ranks.
Rise Mzansi – The party’s Western Cape premier candidate, 35-year-old Axolile Notywala, packed the Thusong Hall in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, to launch its provincial manifesto. Notywala, a former national coordinator for the Right2Know Campaign and general secretary of the Social Justice Coalition, is currently studying for a BA in Political Leadership and Citizenship at the University of South Africa.
Good – The party’s national chairperson, Matthew Cook, has challenged the DA’s “track record” in the Western Cape saying “for too long poor communities in the province have been neglected and cast aside”. He said a Good government would ensure equal service delivery to include the poor coloured and black communities.
Pictured above: Jacob Zuma.
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