Not voting ANC is like choosing devil: Zuma

22,07 2016, President Jacob Zuma listens to Nonkosazana Qalekiso from Duncan Village in East London during the door to door local government campaigning pic: Michael Pinyana.

22,07 2016, President Jacob Zuma listens to Nonkosazana Qalekiso from Duncan Village in East London during the door to door local government campaigning pic: Michael Pinyana.

Published Jul 23, 2016

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Pretoria - Not voting for the ANC is like committing a crime, or choosing the devil over God, ANC president Jacob Zuma declared on the campaign trail in the Eastern Cape.

Accompanied by Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and the party’s provincial leaders, Zuma made the statement while addressing a packed Gompo Hall in Duncan Village, East London, on Friday.

He went on to warn voters that if they didn’t vote ANC, leaders of other political parties would get into municipal “councils or Parliament, and will not do anything to help people”.

He urged Buffalo City residents not to throw their votes “into (the) dustbin”.

“The ANC liberated you. Please vote for it on August 3. Do not waste your vote to opposition parties. Voting ANC is like opening gates to heaven. If you do not vote ANC, it’s like choosing to be with devil,” he said to loud applause from ANC volunteers and supporters.

He also pulled no punches when it came to the opposition DA, comparing the party to a “snake”.

“The DA is a product of the National Party, an organisation that oppressed us. During the apartheid era, the National Party was like a snake and because the DA is its product, the DA is also a snake,” he said.

Zuma said the DA and other parties, like the EFF, Cope and the UDM , were full of “lies”.

“Why vote for liars?” he asked.

Before the address, Zuma conducted a door-to-door campaign in Duncan Village.

Among the people he visited was wheelchair-bound Nonkosazana Qalekiso, 53, who has lived in a dilapidated shack for 21 years.

“I want a motorised wheelchair and a decent shelter with good sanitation. When it is time to answer the call of nature, I use the bucket because I have got no good sanitation facilities. My body is in pain after I was hit by a car just outside my shack earlier this month,” a teary Qalekiso told Zuma. In return, Zuma assured Qalekiso that a motorised wheelchair would be arranged for her by Buffalo City metro officials before next month’s election.

Political Bureau

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