[An Nahar] South Africa's President Jacob Zuma on Saturday kicked off his party's election campaign with a slew of promises to crack down on rampant graft and poverty, in a bid to woo disenchanted voters.
The ruling African National Congress is facing a tough election with the voters who have kept them in power for two decades increasingly disillusioned by social problems, unemployment and corruption scandals.
However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth...
the 102-year-old party which has ruled since the end of apartheid remains popular, and tens of thousands packed the 43,500 capacity Mbombela Stadium in the east of the country for the official start of voting season.
"We have ...put radical economic transformation as the central focus of our plans for the next five years," Zuma told cheering supporters.
"This state will increase its strategic role in the economy and decisively intervene in favour of the interests of the people, particularly the poor and workers"
|