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UDM leader promises to tackle unemployment among rural youth

Bantu Holomisa
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The United Democratic Movement (UDM) took its election campaign to Quluqu village at Ngcobo in the Eastern Cape. Ngcobo is one of the poorest and most underdeveloped towns in South Africa.

The UDM leader boasted about the axing of former IEC head Pansy Tlakula and the resignation of former President Jacob Zuma as the successes of his party in Parliament.

He has urged his supporters to re-elect the UDM so that they can continue to hold those in power accountable.

Holomisa says rural people’s lives need to be developed.

Unemployment, especially amongst the youth, is high. The UDM leader says he’s familiar with the lives of people in the rural areas and therefore would be best-placed to come up with solutions if put in power.

Some of the community members express their sentiments about the party. “What we like about the UDM is that it has a plan for us rural people. It is not telling about thing we don’t need as rural people. As young people we see the future with the UDM, because they have already helped us while they are in parliament.”

Holomisa also says his party was aware of all challenges facing small-scale farmers.

Issues that include soil erosion have been a sore point for the sector.

The UDM also pushed its message of economic development for rural communities so that the burden of state dependency can be decreased. -Reporting by Zimkhita Macingwane 

 

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