Stop intimidating people

Stop intimidating people

Mushakabvu Kajengo

DA Head of communication Willie Venter said, “ANC President Jacob Zuma and the ANC are getting desperate. The President today resorted to threatening and intimidating voters whilst campaigning in Mpumalanga.”

The DA believes that it is one of the strongest opposition part to give ANC headache come 2014.

“We want every vote. We'll continue to run this government forever and ever. Like it or not.”

“If you give us 90% of the vote we'll return to slaughter cattle. If you don't, we won't. Zuma lies to people and the people had lost favour with him." Venter said.

 Venter told Bvunzamutupo News that these thinly veiled threats are symptoms of a party and a president that is feeling the heat. They are anti-democratic statements and are unbecoming of a president of the Republic.

“Recent by-elections in Mpumalanga have shown that the ANC is rapidly losing its majority. In the last 5 by-elections in Mpumalanga, the DA has grown by 11%, 11%, 10%, 6% and 24%. That’s an average of 12% growth in each of the by-elections held in the last year. This growth has come almost exclusively by taking votes away from the ANC.” Venter said.

 Venter went on to say, the fact is that the ANC is losing ground to the DA in Mpumalanga and across the country. That is why the President and the ANC are resorting to scaring and intimidating voters. It is their last resort.

 It won’t work, because South Africans are looking to vote for a party that can take our country forward.