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The leader of the ruling ANC President Ramaphosa launched the first campaign rally for the 2024 elections recently. He touched on topics including the economy while admitting inadvertent mistakes. However, he mentioned that the needs of South Africans were better met now than they were at the end of the apartheid era
The leader of the ruling ANC President Ramaphosa launched the first campaign rally for the 2024 elections recently. He touched on topics including the economy while admitting inadvertent mistakes. However, he mentioned that the needs of South Africans were better met now than they were at the end of the apartheid era.
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The African National Congress held its 2019 Election Manifesto review at the Dobsonville Stadium in Soweto on September 3rd. The review is a report on the progress it has made in implementing the party’s policy from the last general elections as the party campaigns for the 2024 general election. Ramaphosa called on voters not to focus on the negative aspects of his record, but to look at the progress made in thirty years. ANC chairperson underscored some of the untoward developments in the last few years, which included the Covid pandemic which led to the loss of 100,000 lives and two million jobs. The other incidents were riots in 2021 in which more than 350 people were killed, floods, and finally the economic consequences of the conflict in Ukraine.
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He promised to rid the Johannesburg region of illegal miners who are often the source or trigger, of violence. He promised to take a tough stance on undocumented foreigners, a recurring theme in recent weeks. He added that his government has been trying to improve the conditions of the ordinary people, despite all unfavourable situations.
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Ramaphosa earlier made clear that his party would not enter into any coalitions after the 2024 general elections, alluding that he was confident that the party would achieve an outright majority. as many South Africans still see the party as its only hope for a better country. In the meantime, seven opposition parties in South Africa reached an agreement last August to form a coalition to unseat the ruling African National Congress if it fails to gain an outright majority in next year’s general election.
