ANC TAKES ELECTION CAMPAIGN TO LENASIA SOUTH

JOHANNESBURG Sept 27 Sapa

African National Congress secretary-general Cyril Ramaphosa
took the party's local government election campaign to the
predominantly Indian area of Lenasia South near Johannesburg on
Wednesday night.

Ramaphosa introduced two party candidates, Vish Badal and Neil
Pillay, for wards in the area at a meeting of the Lenasia South
Local People's Forum.

In remarks prepared for delivery at the meeting, he said the
local government elections provided the means for communities to
plan and implement programmes already started at national and
provincial level.

The ANC had made huge advances to remove the disadvantages
Indians, coloureds and blacks faced under the National Party's
rule, despite the efforts of parties like the National Party and
Democratic Party to slow the pace of change.

Ramaphosa said the ANC had a long history of exposing
inhumanity and corruption and had the commitment to implement
change in local communities.