We are not free yet‚ Dlamini-Zuma tells East London shack dwellers

23 May 2017 - 15:22 By Staff Writer
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ANC presidential hopeful Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma sits alongside BCM executive mayor Xola Pakati at the SA Funeral Practitioners Association gala dinner at EL ICC last night where she delivered keynote address.
ANC presidential hopeful Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma sits alongside BCM executive mayor Xola Pakati at the SA Funeral Practitioners Association gala dinner at EL ICC last night where she delivered keynote address.
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We are not free yet‚ ANC presidential hopeful Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said in Duncan Village‚ East London‚ on Tuesday morning.

"We are free in so far as the political power‚ but when we still live like this we are not free‚" she told shack dwellers.

Dlamini-Zuma said the ANC was established to free Africans‚ and black people in general‚ from oppression.

  • The whole of Africa needs radical economic transformation‚ Dlamini-Zuma saysANC presidential hopeful Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma believes radical economic transformation should sweep through the entire African continent. 

"It's not an organisation that was established for elections. It was organisation that cared and loved the people and wanted them to be free. We are not free yet‚ so the work of the ANC is not complete‚" said Dlamini-Zuma‚ adding that the work of the ANC was about the day-to-day lives of the people.

  • Dlamini-Zuma's campaign to become next ANC leader struggles to find feet outside KZNNkosazana Dlamini-Zuma's campaign to become the next ANC president struggled to find its feet outside her stronghold of KwaZulu-Natal. 

"It has nothing to do with campaigning. Of course‚ when the time for campaigning comes we campaign. The ANC was established in 1912‚ what campaigning was there? There was no campaigning."

-TMG Digital/DispatchLIVE

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