Zuma: 2019 elections more significant to ANC than 1994 elections
20 November 2018
The 2019 general elections are more significant to the ANC than the first democratic elections in 1994, former president Jacob Zuma said on Monday.
"When we voted for the first time, we were excited and happy that [former president Nelson] Mandela was released from prison. We have serious challenges now which need us to be tough and disciplined. Even opposition members must vote for the ANC, but remain in their parties," Zuma said.
He was speaking to scores of people during an ANC KwaZulu-Natal campaign trail in Clermont, west of Durban.
"We must protect this freedom. Poverty came with land dispossession and if we can sort [out] the land issue, poverty would be eradicated."