As has become standard procedure in the most of Africa, intimidation has become part of electioneering. In accordance with the South African Constitution, general elections must occur in April and July next year. It will elect a new National Assembly as well as the provincial legislature in all nine provinces. The Western Cape is the only province ruled by the DA. This will be the fourth quinquennial election since the end of apartheid and looks as if it will also be the most violent with a ruling party in tatters.
In what we can describe as the start of the ANC’s bloody battle for the Western Cape, Lagunya township constituency leader Luzuko Mngqibisa, 23, fled his burning shack in the early hours of the morning. He found a portable flush toilet and a note in front of his house.
The note reportedly reads: “We are going to kill you, you dog of Helen Zille. Leave your people alone.”
Mngqibisa told the Daily Voice newspaper he knew ANC members were behind the attack because of the sanitation protests over portable toilets in recent weeks.
Zille had arranged for him to stay at an undisclosed location for his own safety.
Some newspapers in the Western Cape have reported that the ANC condemned the attack. Here at SA Promo we are not fooled. This is only one of many attacks to follow before election day next year. The ANC cannot fight a fair fight. Intimidation is part and parcel of electioneering if you are a revolutionary force that has never come to terms with the skills of governance.
