EFF takes election campaign to Robben Island

  • 📰 TimesLIVE
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 49 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 23%
  • Publisher: 59%

South Africa Headlines News

The EFF took its election campaign to Robben Island, claiming to be the first political party to lobby for votes on the historic outcrop.

Results from the heritage site's voting station are normally the first to be announced by the IEC. The voting station has a mere 144 registered voters.

Of the 143 registered voters in 2016, only 56 people cast their votes, with the EFF getting only five of those. In the May 2019 general election, of the 51 people who voted, 26 voted for the ANC and 14 for the EFF.He said they were hoping to grow even further this time around and snatch the voting district from the ANC, which mustered 27 votes in August 2016.

“We can confirm that the EFF were granted permission to campaign on Robben Island today. Their request entailed the mounting of posters on street poles, as well as conducting door-to-door visits to the residents within the village precinct,” said Robben Island's Morongoa Ramaboa. She said they were not aware of similar requests to campaign on the island in the past but there was a possibility that the EFF was not the first political party to do so.

Ramaboa said there were about 150 residents on the island, some of whom were eligible to vote. This number consists of the

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

Do u have any information contrary to the EFF's statement? Please tell if there is any party which had done that since the dawn of democracy in 1994.

Claiming OR is it true?

Are there voters there ?

To who Robben Islanders

I’ve never seen penguins vote

I love this 🤣🤣

They should stay there for good. Never leave that island....

Ah. So like Mandela, they were also on Robben Island. Would make a nice election spin.

MONOPOLY : Go to the ferry + Go to the nearest island.

Must be a lot of seagulls going to vote eff now probably convinced them with some bread crumbs like they do with their voters 😂😂😂these guys are dom

There are people who are supposed to vote there right?

Wait and see ANC is going to sand a boat full of hungry kids to vote for them and liar by saying they have win the island.

Tasteless

They must stay there, ban them from returning, can not do anymore damage there anyway

I so hope they find Mandela in there🙄

Idjots. It's basically a museum VoetsekEFF

Their Cult Leader lied to them!

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

The can even be the first to campaign in the graveyard oksalayo they'll never govern an municipalities as long as the continue to placate illegal immigrants at the cost of the citizens.

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 28. in ZA

South Africa Latest News, South Africa Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

EFF in Soweto hits Eskom with demands | CitypressEFF regional command team member Koketso Poho read out the demands to Eskom’s principal inspector Patricia Mnguni at the parastatal’s distribution base in Klipspruit. Eskom won't listen to eff they can demand till they're blue in the face. Eff is weak Hit your gat man… under the EFF loadshedding would look like a walk in the park… they will destroy everything! Stop the demands fight the real issue, corruption in the government, MAKE THE DIFFERENCE their and you will see the change in people on the ground.
Source: City_Press - 🏆 7. / 72 Read more »

Local government elections: A review of the ANC, DA and EFF manifestos - The Mail & GuardianAs the three big parties make their last attempts to woo voters in this year’s local government elections, we look back at the promises in their manifestos
Source: mailandguardian - 🏆 2. / 92 Read more »

Mabuza met by hostile crowds as load-shedding casts darkness over ANC’s Ekurhuleni election campaignDeputy President David Mabuza has admitted ongoing load-shedding was worrying for the ANC because it had disrupted the ruling party’s campaigning ahead of local government elections next week. Thumamina cabal is running a co-ordinated political campaign against DD. Where ever he goes there's load shedding and stratcom doesn't miss a chance of reporting when people are booing him but don't report when people are booing the useless Ramabillion
Source: SowetanLIVE - 🏆 13. / 63 Read more »

LOOK: IFP reiterates accountability to the electorate at election campaign rally in UlundiIFP President Velenkosini Hlabisa told his party's supporters that the party will never stand for corruption.
Source: IOL - 🏆 46. / 51 Read more »

Local government elections: A review of the ANC, DA and EFF manifestos - The Mail & GuardianAs the three big parties make their last attempts to woo voters in this year’s local government elections, we look back at the promises in their manifestos
Source: mailandguardian - 🏆 2. / 92 Read more »

Hope is restoring ANC to heart of the people who love itLINDIWE SISULU | We are truly not all 'on the same boat'. The few are on luxury yachts, and the rest are on leaky little dinghies. The faces around me are of generational impoverishment, neglect, and apartheid unconquered. She is talking for her own interests, coz if she wasn't, she will be talking about foreigners who have surrounded our country with tuckshops which dont contribute even a cent to our fiscus
Source: SowetanLIVE - 🏆 13. / 63 Read more »