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'Vote ANC or else'
April 22 2009 at 01:42PM
By Montsho Matlala & Tshwarelo eseng Mogakane
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has urged a group of villagers from Limpopo to approach the police after their chief ordered them to vote for the African National Congress (ANC) or "face his wrath".
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Mpumalanga provincial electoral officer Steve Ngwenya said nobody had the right to instruct anyone whom to vote for.
| 'I therefore instruct all my subjects to vote for the ANC' |
The drama started in the small village of Phiphidi village near Thohoyandou during the celebration of the rehabilitation of the Tshivhase Tea Estates on April 16.
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Royal chief Thovhele Kennedy Tshivhase told villagers that they should vote the ANC to stay in his good books.
"This is my land. The tea plantations, the grass and the mountains are mine. I therefore instruct all my subjects to vote for the ANC. You media people and journalists can write what you want about me, I don't care. I say vote for the ANC," said Tshivhase.
Tshivhase made the statement in front of agriculture MEC Dikeledi Magadzi and Limpopo premier Cassel Mathale, who made no effort to censure Tshivhase. - African Eye News Service
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30 Weeks ago Harry wrote :
This is the olny democracy we have in South Africa. Where eles in Africa you can even excercise this kind ques and voting explanation about election. I love to see the ques, the happyness of the SouthAfrican voters. Go my people! you are the pride of Africa and our future and our leaders of democracy, progress, and economic wellbieng, in that big potential continent. No matter how much crimes are committied in the street of Johansburg, I still love South Africa, because its struggle for Democracy. There is not Country in the World that have this much enthosiasm for Democracy, but South Africa. May be it is the same here in America.
30 Weeks ago Anonymous wrote :
vote da not anc anc is suck
30 Weeks ago Brian Cele wrote :
MEC Dikeledi Magadzi and Limpopo premier Cassel Mathale are fikking cowards not to stand up and censure the great fat chief for his illegal statements. This is exactly why I wont vote for the ANC, they are all a bunch of lawbreaking corrupt idiots
30 Weeks ago Anonymous wrote :
This is just a tip of the Ice Berg. In Limpopo civil servants go to work with huge election banners of the ANC on their caqrs and park in government provided parking bays
30 Weeks ago JM wrote :
Anyone who votes in a corrupt politician has rocks in their head.
There are milestones to a failed state.
[X]Corrupt individual as presidents? Check
30 Weeks ago Surveyor wrote :
Black Pride raises an interesting point "do the ordinary subjects know that the vote is secret" but considering the ruralness of some of these villages and cultural standings, a chief could very just tell them he has an invisible wondering eye which will check.... "Like sheep to a herd" spings to my mind, not only in this instance, but in a larger part most of SA.
30 Weeks ago black pride wrote :
do the ordinary subjects know that the vote is secret,his excellency will never know whom they voted,anyway
30 Weeks ago Anonymous wrote :
it becomes more and more of a joke! fair elections indeed! exactly how it all happened in uganda, then zimbabwe and now here in god old south africa
30 Weeks ago Michael Liermann wrote :
"Tshivhase made the statement in front of agriculture MEC Dikeledi Magadzi and Limpopo premier Cassel Mathale, who made no effort to censure Tshivhase."
The phrase that springs to mind is 'quelle surprise".
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