CASE report highlights concerns around ANC election abuses
Research by the Community Agency for Social Enquiry (CASE) shows that the ANC is engaging in a range of practices designed to skew the election in their favour (see link).
CASE's 102-page report is based on extensive newspaper sources and interviews conducted between August and November last year with representatives of nine political parties. The research "overwhelmingly pointed to the ANC as the primary source of intimidation in South Africa."
In a sad indictment of the ANC's underhanded tactics, the report finds that intimidation and voting buying is most prevalent in poor communities.
The CASE report reinforces the evidence of ANC abuses which the DA provided at a press conference earlier this week (see link) and shows just how extensive these practices have become. But it goes much further.
Activists said that "Older people-pensioners-are told if you vote for anyone other than the ANC you will lose your pension. Young mothers, 18-19 years old, they come from poor backgrounds and get the R250 child grant, they are being told if you vote for anyone other than us you will lose this grant."