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OPINION: Elections2019: Posters point to a three-horse race and 45 no-shows RitchKev WeekendArgus SaturdayStar IOSNewsSA pretorianews

There are 11 days to the general elections - and if the posters are anything to go by, it’s a three-horse race in Joburg’s northern suburbs.

The Freedom Front Plus’s “Slaan Terug” with its echoes of Tony Leon’s Fight Back campaign 20 years ago is strangely absent from most of the street poles this year, while the African Christian Democratic Party is even more overwhelmingly outnumbered than it is in Parliament. The EFF has Julius Malema looking svelte, young and innocent, beaming out of most of its poster beneath the label: “Son of the Soil.” Its two alternatives are the injunction: “Vote EFF” and the other: “Our Land and Jobs Now.”

 

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