Eldorado Park politicking: iLIVE

The people of Eldorado Park - all 500 or so of them - were all smiles when "Dad" came to see them and promised action on drug problems in the area.

The visit by President Jacob Zuma a year before the elections was a coincidence or entirely political.

I say it was electioneering because Eldorado Park was the only coloured township that voted ANC in 1994, and it is now under the tight grip of the DA.

Statistics South Africa's mid-year population estimates show there were 4.8 million coloured people in the country. Half of these were in the Western Cape, where the DA is in power.

There are 424 000 coloured people in Gauteng, which translates to 3.5% of the province's population. That is a good number of voters for that magical majority. The ANC went into that minority community because it gives the party a chance to show progress on its promises.

If this was not cheap electioneering, tell me why Zuma had to wait until now to visit an area that has the highest levels of drug-related theft and domestic abuse in Gauteng?

Why has he not been to places like Mpumalanga, where service delivery protests are rife? The reason is the ANC is the strongest party in those areas and it is confident the same people who have been burning tyres and blockading roads will vote ANC come election time.