The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) says their elections manifesto is best suited to respond to South Africans’ daily-lived material conditions.
IFP is set to launch its manifesto today at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban.
The manifesto will be launched under the theme ‘Let’s do it for Shenge’.
This will be the party’s first manifesto launch without its founding President Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi who died in September last year.
IFP leader Velenkhosini Hlabisa is expected to outline the commitments the party is making to South Africans in a bid to capture their vote in the May National and provincial elections
IFP National spokesperson Mkhuleko Hlengwa says the IFP will present credible and significant alternatives and policies to the problems affecting the country.
Hlengwa says, “We fully recognise that the country is on its knees, having collapsed politically, socially and economically having dire consequences, in particular for young people and the future of this country.”
“So we believe that coming from our policy conference in December 2023, the manifesto that we are launching today is best suited to respond to South Africans’ daily lived material conditions. We are going to be also ensuring that the serving leadership is at the forefront as it is part of the commitment sets that we’ll be making,” he adds.
Stadium expected to be full
IFP Youth Brigade Secretary Mlungisi Mabaso says the 65 000 capacity Moses Mabhida Stadium will be filled by members who will be attending the manifesto launch.
Mabaso says their ultimate goal is to win back control of KwaZulu-Natal.
He says, “This is the province we are expecting to win but we have to demonstrate today that we have capacity and we have the muscle to win and claim this province because we know this province belongs to the IFP.”
“We need to make sure that we bring this province back to the people of KwaZulu-Natal, so our mobilisation campaigns went well and we are hopeful and confident that we are going to fill up the stadium. I can tell you that we will have more than 40 000 young people that will attend because of how we have mobilised them and how they are excited about the IFP,” Mabaso adds.
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Additional reporting by Busi Chimombe.
