Article: Cape Town ANC party a hit

Thousands of ANC supporters flocked to the Cape Town Stadium on Saturday to celebrate the 103rd anniversary of the ruling party.

By 10am the stadium was half full, with many still queuing at the turnstiles outside.
 
Party a hit and waiting to get free stuff is two different things. I can turn up to a braai for free food but doesn't mean I enjoy or like the host. Free food and my friends are there too.
 
ChocolateBadger said:
Party a hit and waiting to get free stuff is two different things. I can turn up to a braai for free food but doesn't mean I enjoy or like the host. Free food and my friends are there too.
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So does that mean there are also a couple of DA freeloaders there? :whistle:
 
Not looking forward to seeing the aftermath (think new years day on the beach)
 
I had high hopes that everyone's favorite interpreter would be there but I see its some boring white lady.:(
 
http://mg.co.za/article/2015-01-08-anc-free-the-cape-and-sa-will-follow

ANC: Free the Cape and SA will follow

The ruling party is keeping its strategy to recapture lost metros and keep control of others close to its chest.

NEWS ANALYSIS

The election campaign season has come early for the people of the Western Cape, with the ANC sending its top brass to drum up support in some of the most impoverished communities around Cape Town ahead of next year’s local government elections.

The ANC strategy was clearly to portray the province’s ruling Democratic Alliance as a party that espouses apartheid laws and cares less about improving the poor conditions experienced by most black people in the province.

The strategy was intended to counter the DA’s claim that the Western Cape is the best-run province in the country and should be used as a model of success across all provinces.

Although the Municipal IQ municipal productivity index showed most of the top-ranked municipalities are situated in the Western Cape, the DA-led government has often been accused of only looking after the rich middle-class suburbs clinging to the edges of Table Mountain in Cape Town while ignoring the townships of the poor majority that sprawl across the desolate fire-plagued and drought-ridden Cape Flats.

ANC leaders, led by party president Jacob Zuma and his deputy, Cyril Ramaphosa, have been hard at work this week, visiting townships and lobbying for the people of the Western Cape to help to tip the scales in their favour so they can try to reclaim major municipalities in the 2016 local government elections.

The ANC turned 103 years old on Thursday and Zuma is expected to deliver the party’s annual January?8 statement on Saturday. He will no doubt have the local government elections at the back of his mind.

The party has experienced a significant decline in key metros across the country. In Ekurhuleni, the ANC dropped from 67.53% of the vote in 2009 to 56.41% last year. In Nelson Mandela Bay it recorded less than 50% support, and in Tshwane the party only managed 50.96%. In Johannesburg, the ANC’s share fell to 53.63%.

The DA, on the other hand, registered significant growth in all metros.

ANC communications head Lindiwe Zulu told the Mail & Guardian on Thursday that the 2016 local government elections are the least of its worries. “We are not worried at all. We want to make sure the length and breadth of the country is under the ANC. That’s why we [are campaigning] in Cape Town townships this week.”

She said the party has a strategy in place to improve its electoral support in areas where it experienced a decline. “We do have strategies, but we can’t go out publicly about that. We always do an analysis of the reasons why we lost support. We don’t do reviews through thumb-sucking. We have scientific analysis.”

The ANC’s own internal surveys show the disgruntlement towards the party was partly because of the Nkandla saga, which saw the government spending more than R240?million of taxpayers’ money to upgrade Zuma’s private homestead.

Whereas public protector Thuli Madonsela found that Zuma and his family benefited unduly from the security upgrades and that he should pay back a portion of the money, the ANC has taken a defensive approach to the matter.

Another concern raised by those surveyed was the implementation of e-tolls in Gauteng, despite widespread public condemnation of the system. It came as no surprise when the ANC in Gauteng lost about 10% of its electoral support, prompting Premier David Makhura to establish a panel to assess the socioeconomic impact of e-tolls on the poor.

It is likely that the same concerns raised prior to the 2014 national elections will still be a factor during the 2016 local government polls, meaning the ANC will have to work doubly hard to retain control of its key metros in Gauteng – Tshwane, Ekurhuleni and Johannesburg.

ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe this week said the ANC is working on different strategies to regain the Western Cape and retain other metros where support for the party had been waning.

“The strategy for the Western Cape would be a long-term one that speaks specifically to the people of the province. The most important aspect would be the tactics and the way we execute them. That is what we are working on.”

The past few years have seen a significant drop in support for the ruling party in metropolitan areas.

The ANC’s panic about next year’s local government elections became evident last month when the party disbanded its regional structure in the troubled Nelson Mandela Bay municipality. The region has been plagued by infighting in recent years as comrades jockeyed for positions of power, as well as tenders.

Mantashe said retaining areas such as Nelson Mandela Bay is something the party has to work on. “It is not like regaining control like we have to do in Cape Town. The reality is we don’t want to govern here and there. We want to govern every part of South Africa. That’s what we want.”

Mantashe said all the ANC wants was for the people of the Western Cape to free themselves. “We want them to taste freedom. That’s what we are offering them: liberation of the mind.”

The party this week claimed full ownership of the 60-year-old Freedom Charter, with Mantashe telling journalists that it would feature prominently in the January 8 statement.

The Economic Freedom Fighters and the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, recently expelled from the ANC’s alliance partner Cosatu, have criticised the ANC for failing to implement the charter, particularly with regard to the nationalisation of mines and land expropriation.

- Matuma Letsoalo is a senior politics reporter at the Mail & Guardian.
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Again with the liberation agenda, 21 years now... DA still remarked as apartheid servants, though racially diverse... ANC stats, what is the maths pass rate again? The Freedom Charter, besides the core principles didn't CODESA brought it to the agenda to be negotiated?
 
ponder said:
Please tell me that's for real.
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Misleading article:

http://ewn.co.za/2015/01/10/Cape-minstrels-join-ANC-celebration

CAPE MINSTRELS JOIN ANC CELEBRATION

With their bright colours, the minstrels have added their special brand of colour to today’s proceedings.

Blah, blah, blah...
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In truth:

http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/political-storm-brews-over-minstrel-event-1.1803361#.VLElt9WUd68

Political storm brews over minstrel event

Cape Town - A political storm is brewing over the Cape Town Klopse as minstrel troupe leaders claimed this week they were being pressured by representatives of their carnival committee to muster at the ANC’s birthday bash at Cape Town Stadium on Saturday.

Several troupe leaders confirmed to Weekend Argus that a meeting of the Klopse took place on Wednesday night, where they were instructed to turn out and perform at the stadium on Saturday.

Minstrels representative Kevin Momberg is on record promising a turnout of 40 000 from the community of minstrels and their supporters at the ANC festivities.

Earlier reports were that the minstrels were to be issued with armbands bearing the ANC’s logo and the image of Nelson Mandela as part of their marching gear for the occasion.

The manufacture of the armbands was commissioned by ANC provincial leader Marius Fransman.
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Nothing more to know. The minstrels are supporting the DA and other minority parties.
 
http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/20...-first-praise-singer-tells-crowd-at-anc-rally

'Let's exorcise spirit of Jan van Riebeeck first': praise singer tells crowd at ANC rally

A praise singer told the crowd he needed to exorcise the spirit of Dutch coloniser Jan van Riebeeck before the rally could get underway.

"I have to clear the spirit of Jan van Riebeeck from this place first."

On Friday night, at an ANC fundraiser, Zuma had revisited the country's colonial history, telling some of the country's wealthiest "all the trouble began" in 1652 when Van Riebeeck landed in the Cape.
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200 years had been increased to 350 years... rich statement made by a Zulu.
 
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