The African Independent Congress (AIC) is confident of success in the coming general election despite backlash against the party.
It believes it will increase its support nationally.
AIC president Mandla Galo was on a door-to-door campaign in Port Elizabeth townships ahead of the party’s manifesto launch at Nangoza Jebe hall on Saturday.
Galo says they don’t believe in making decisions for the people from boardrooms but rather implement people’s decisions.
He adds, “We want to be your servants, give us that opportunities to be your servants because we don’t want to be your leaders. The leaders that sit in the boardroom and decide for the people as to what must be given to the people, we don’t work like that as the AIC.”
Residents from the Soweto-on Sea, Mamkwayi Isaac and Thenjiwe Tom have raised their concerns with the AIC president.
” I would like the AIC to please fix my house, it has got so many cracks, also my bathroom is not working properly. I have been asking the municipality to come and assist but to date no one has come. We have lots of problems. Leaking toilets, houses with no doors, no street lights, insufficient electricity and when you go forward to the authorities, they demand you to pay. I am a pensioner and we use the same money to feed our families and it’s not enough.”
