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Mashaba has worked hard to garner support ahead of next year’s local government elections that she plans to contest, garnering the support of several prominent figures from her former party, the DA, in the process.
Former DA Gauteng leader John Moodey recently left ship to join Mashaba. Other prominent figures who have since joined include former head of the Johannesburg district attorney Funzi Ngobeni, former head of the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department David Tembe, and former ANC MPs Makhosi Khoza and Vytjie Mentor, among others.
Mashaba is unwilling to go back to the drawing board to change the party logo. His opinion is that this process would be useless.
It could also be problematic for your members who have printed T-shirts, hats, banners and other party insignia.
“We consider that any effort to alter the logo would likely produce a similar problem precisely because there are more than 600 political parties, a situation caused by the IEC’s failure to terminate parties, according to its own regulations, which are not represented and did not participate in the general elections, ”said Mashaba.
The party is expected to cause unrest in the upcoming local government elections after its viability process through the Popular Dialogue garnered 2.4 million submissions. This, he said, showed an appetite for a new and different political party.
His party would focus on five values:
- not racialism;
- a free market economy driven by the private sector and not by the government;
- social justice: advancing a pro-poor agenda, creating a strong middle class, and closing the gap between rich and poor;
- Rule of law; Y
- electoral reform, which will see people directly elect their leaders and public representatives.
However, this is now in play since the IEC’s decision not to allow it to register the match.
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