SENIOR IFP LEADERS JOIN ANC IN KWAZULU-NATAL
18 July 2013
The African National Congress (ANC) in KwaZulu-Natal joins millions of people in South Africa and all over the world in wishing our former President Nelson Mandela a speedy recovery from his recurring lung infection. Cde Madiba is the pillar of strength and source of inspiration to the ANC, South Africans and people around the world.
We also send a revolutionary birthday greetings to the 11th President of our National Liberation Movement, Comrade Thabo Mbeki who turns 71 today. The ANC is proud of the contribution Cde Mandela and Mbeki made to the liberation struggle and the creation of a united, democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous South Africa.
As the ANC, we feel humbled that the ANC's popularity in KwaZulu-Natal and indeed throughout South Africa remains uncontested.
Today we are welcoming very senior people from the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) who have just joined the ANC. The exodus of people from other political parties to the ANC is not as a result of our mobilisation and recruiting skills but simply because people see that the ANC is the only political party that brings political maturity, stability and effective management of democratic principle.