South Africa: Ramaphosa Promises Water and Electricity to Malema's Home Turf in Seshego, Limpopo

With only 20 days before the highly contested 2019 national elections, the African National Congress took its Thuma Mina campaign machinery to Julius Malema's home town in Seshego, Limpopo. President Cyril Ramaphosa went door to door, spoke to small crowds and went to receive blessings from the local traditional chief to woo voters from the EFF.

Although President Cyril Ramaphosa never mentioned the EFF or its leader by name when he addressed residents of Zone 1 in Seshego on Tuesday, there was little doubt about who he was talking of whenever he touched on the subject of unseating "smaller parties" that called themselves "the government in waiting".

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