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Picture courtesy: (The witness/ Clive Ndlovu) KwaZulu-Natal IFP premier candidate, Thami Ntuli, engaging with Students at Pietermaritzburg’s MYCA sports ground on a campaign rally organized by SADESMO.
On Sunday, May 5, the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) took its election campaign trail to Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), on a rally organized by the party’s student wing, the South African Democratic Student Movement (SADESMO), at Pietermaritzburg’s MYCA sports ground. The campaign trail was led by Thami Ntuli, the provincial chairperson of the IFP, King Cetshwayo Municipality mayor, and the IFP provincial premier candidate.
Ntuli told tertiary students that the rate of unemployed graduates will continue to rise unless the youth vote for the IFP, ensuring that their future is secured. Ntuli assured students that if they come out in numbers to vote for the IFP, their future will be better because if the IFP gets the majority vote in KZN, as a provincial premier candidate, he will form a directorate in the premier’s office, which will ensure that graduates are hired in various government departments and in the private sector. He further said that the IFP has managed to create jobs for graduates and general youth in all its municipalities.
Ntuli blames the National Student Financial Aid Scheme’s (NSFAS) failure to allocate funds for students on the African National Congress (ANC). He said NSFAS has no funds, and students are struggling and starving in tertiary institutions because the funds are being looted by people with associations with the ANC. According to Ntuli, South Africa is currently at a crossroads, and the upcoming elections are a perfect opportunity for the ruling party to be removed and replaced by the IFP.
If the IFP is successful on Election Day, it aims to fix the mess that the current ruling party has created. Ntuli emphasized how important education is to the IPF, as the former leader of the party and the former prime minister of KZN, the late Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, prioritized education. He said the TVET colleges running in KZN were built by Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, and when he was the prime minister of KZN, Prince Buthelezi built 6, 000 classrooms for secondary and primary schools. He added that the current leaders of the party will follow in Prince Buthelezi’s footsteps by continuing to instil his values and beliefs, and if the IFP wins the elections, it will practice his principle of putting people first.
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