ANC to criss-cross KZN Saturday ahead of election manifesto launch

DURBAN - The African National Congress (ANC) leadership will be crisscrossing KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday in preparation for its manifesto launch next week.

ANC Deputy President Paul Mashatile is expected to lead the event at the Pietermaritzburg City Hall.

The party is set to launch its manifesto at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban next Saturday, where the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) also detailed its policies last week.

The ANC's Mafika Mndebele said visiting communities was important ahead of the election.

"Ordinary South Africans will be given an opportunity to enhance our manifesto, to raise their concerns, and then to raise whatever challenges they have and the solutions. Then from there, the leadership of the ANC will incorporate that into an action plan of the movement."

Mndebele said the party’s leadership would actively listen to the concerns and aspirations of the people of KwaZulu-Natal:

“All members of the national executive committee, they will be given an opportunity to meet business people, to meet ordinary South Africans where ordinary South Africans will be given an opportunity to enhance our manifesto and raise their concerns."