The Indian vote is the prize political parties are chasing in KwaZulu-Natal
POLITICAL parties in KwaZulu-Natal are pulling out all the stops to woo the Indian vote in the local government poll.KwaZulu-Natal is home to 70% of the country’s 1.4-million South African citizens of Indian descent.In 2014 the DA secured 73% of the vote in areas such as Chatsworth and Phoenix, and obtained an overall 61% of the Indian vote nationally. These votes helped the party overtake the Inkatha Freedom Party as the official opposition in the KwaZulu-Natal legislature.Analysts say the Indian vote is set play a king maker’s role in the province, as it has done in all the elections after 1994.Both the DA and ANC have been bombarding this community with visible electioneering campaigns, billboards and posters in Chatsworth, Phoenix, Pietermaritzburg, Verulam and others, hoping to convince the undecided to vote for them.The ANC has deployed big guns, including President Jacob Zuma, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and prominent Indian politicians to woo Indian voters to the party’s...
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