THE media are on a campaign to smear the names of ANC members during election time, party general secretary Gwede Mantashe said yesterday.
"Only at election time the media dig up old stories about members... It's media propaganda," he said during a rally at Sinaba Stadium in Daveyton, Ekurhuleni.
He urged residents in the Ekurhuleni ward not to be taken in by the stories being reported in the media.
He told voters it was 31 days before the local government elections and reminded them of all the good work the ANC had accomplished in South Africa's 17 years as a democracy.
He said it was the ANC that had made the drastic changes in the country and it was them who gave homes and electricity to the poor.
"Even rural areas have electricity in rondavels."
He vowed that job creation for the unemployed was a priority for the ANC government, as poverty was a reality.
"Other candidates must know that date (May 18) is to drive the programme of the ANC. We have been driving it for 17 years," Mantashe said.
"It's not an employment date (for opposition candidates), it's a deployment date," he said.
"Take insults as a message. In the ANC, there is always a tomorrow. If there was no tomorrow, there would be no ANC," Mantashe said.
Media out to smear ANC - Mantashe
THE media are on a campaign to smear the names of ANC members during election time, party general secretary Gwede Mantashe said yesterday.
"Only at election time the media dig up old stories about members... It's media propaganda," he said during a rally at Sinaba Stadium in Daveyton, Ekurhuleni.
He urged residents in the Ekurhuleni ward not to be taken in by the stories being reported in the media.
He told voters it was 31 days before the local government elections and reminded them of all the good work the ANC had accomplished in South Africa's 17 years as a democracy.
He said it was the ANC that had made the drastic changes in the country and it was them who gave homes and electricity to the poor.
"Even rural areas have electricity in rondavels."
He vowed that job creation for the unemployed was a priority for the ANC government, as poverty was a reality.
"Other candidates must know that date (May 18) is to drive the programme of the ANC. We have been driving it for 17 years," Mantashe said.
"It's not an employment date (for opposition candidates), it's a deployment date," he said.
"Take insults as a message. In the ANC, there is always a tomorrow. If there was no tomorrow, there would be no ANC," Mantashe said.
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