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Electoral Court must dismiss ANC delay tactics – Herman Mashaba

ActionSA leader says ruling party’s vague and embarrassing claim is just an attempt to hide the truth

Electoral Court Must Dismiss ANC Delay Tactics with Contempt

28 August 2021

South Africans and the Electoral Court must dismiss the ANC’s attempts to increase the likelihood of delays to the coming Local Government Elections with the contempt they deserve.

The ANC intends to delay the coming election by approaching the Electoral Court with a frivolous allegation – that the Electoral Commission of South Africa’s (IEC) registration system was not up to standard. This is despite the ANC Deputy Secretary-general, Jessie Duarte, exalting their submission of candidate lists in a grand press conference on Tuesday.

The vague and embarrassing claim is nothing other than an attempt to hide the truth. The truth is that the ANC fears the coming local government election. They fear these elections because South Africans have grown gatvol of the ANC criminal enterprise.

South Africans are gatvol of the ANC’s corruption, looting and cadre deployment; tired of their load-shedding and service delivery failures across the country; gatvol of rising unemployment and poverty whilst ANC cadres enrich themselves; tired of crime and lawlessness; and gatvol of the gross incompetence of a government that is not committed to public service.

Unlike the ANC, we stand ready to contest the coming elections and are ready to restore South African’s faith in government.

ActionSA’s candidates include men and women from every walk of life. We are eager and ready to serve residents. Our candidates include people with political experience in the case of former Mayors, former MMCs and former MPs. They include candidates who are new to politics but have distinguished themselves as engineers, lawyers, entrepreneurs and businesses, policemen and women, and community servants.

Critically, ActionSA wields a serious track record in government that most established political parties cannot compete with. Our collective governance experience means that we will be able to present compelling blueprints for these municipalities, and voters will be able to believe in their credibility based on what has been observed in the past. This cannot be overstated in an era where South Africans have grown weary of the promises of political parties.

Over the coming days, ActionSA will present these candidates to the people of their municipalities and South Africans in general. We are immensely proud of the candidates that we have put forward.

ActionSA is ready for these elections. Whether they take place in October, in February or anywhere in between, we will deliver a positive election campaign that offers hope to the people of South African that we can start the project to fix South Africa.

Above all else, and irrespective of when the elections will be held, the South African people have proven that they are ready for these elections like no other election before it.

Issued by Herman Mashaba, ActionSA, President, 28 August 2021