NEHAWU SAYS VOTE ANC
The National Education Health and Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU) calls on all its members and South Africans to come out on the 18th of May 2011, tomorrow to vote for the African National Congress in the local government elections. South Africans have a responsibility to make sure that the freedoms that all of us enjoy are defended and the only way to ensure that this goal is achieved is to vote for a party that brought us those freedoms.
Our country has a lot of challenges but we have a lot of reasons to be optimistic and celebrate because the ANC has not failed us over the last 17 years and it remains the only party that can deliver on the aspirations and fulfil the dreams of South Africans.
The advances made in Polokwane have seen the government initiate steps towards the implementation of the National Health Insurance (NHI) and the adoption of a new development strategy in terms of the released New Growth Path document. This will improve our health system and help to create more jobs to deal with the high levels of unemployment.
NEHAWU urges all workers and South Africans to give the former state president Cde Nelson Mandela an early birthday present by ensuring an overwhelming victory for the ANC in tomorrow's elections.Cde Nelson Mandela spent many years in prison fighting for our liberation he never wavered in his fight for justice and not once did he think of abandoning the fight for all in order to save himself. If leaders like Nelson Mandela, Oliver Thambo ,Chris Hani and others were not resolute and disciplined we will still be in the trenches because there is no victory that can be achieved by impatient people.
The workers in the Western Cape and all progressive people have a responsibility to come out in numbers to vote for the ANC in the city of Cape Town under the leadership of that reliable working class stalwart Cde Tony Ehrenhreich.
Workers have seen and experienced the inequitable, oppressive tactics of a DA led municipality and the blatant discrimination and neglect of poor people's areas in Cape town is reason enough to overwhelmingly vote out the DA led municipality.
The union congratulates all those who have reconsidered their initial decisions to stand as independent candidates and we call on those who were planning to vote for them to reconsider and cast their votes for the ANC. We are therefore confronted by a choice tomorrow whether to remain loyal to the struggle and ensure that the next generation inherit a prospering South Africa that belongs to all or sell out to those who cannot wait to get another opportunity to frustrate our ambitions and aspirations with their reactionary policies.NEHAWU is looking forward to a decisive ANC victory in tomorrow's local government elections in honour of our struggle icons and also on behalf of the next generation.
Do not waste your vote the future of this country is in your hands, vote ANC tomorrow.
Statement issued by Sizwe Pamla, NEHAWU Secretariat Office, May 17 2011
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