Makhosi Khoza targets disaffected ANC voters for new party
The anti-corruption politician warns against voter apathy, and says the new African Democratic Change offers a new home for the 9-million who did not vote in 2016
Former ANC MP Makhosi Khoza’s newly launched political party, the African Democratic Change (ADeC), wants all ANC voters who boycotted the 2016 local government elections to vote for them in 2019. Khoza announced the ambitious target at the party’s maiden media briefing on Saturday at Lilies Leaf Farm in Johannesburg. The ADeC was formed after several political organisations and civil society movements merged and "approached" Khoza to lead them. "About 9-million registered voters in the last elections decided not to vote at all. The ANC lost Tshwane‚ Johannesburg‚ Ekurhuleni [sic] and Nelson Mandela Bay‚ but did that translate to an increase of vote to DA or EFF? What that says to me is that as South Africans we need to be careful about encouraging voter apathy. To me this says there are people that are disillusioned‚ they are not finding an alternative out of all these parties that are in existence‚" Khoza said. She said that this constituency needed an option to vote for because t...
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