Food for Votes.... follow the leader - Zanu-PF..

The ANC is enticing voters with food parcels — using taxpayers’ money.

The Sunday Times has established that ruling party councillors and representatives have been accompanying officials from the Department of Social Development in dishing out food parcels since February, declaring that the largesse is from “an ANC-led government”.

The electoral code of conduct states that it is an offence to offer a reward to a person to vote in a particular manner.

“They wore their ANC T-shirts and told us that the food was from the ANC, and that we should vote for the ANC if we want to get more parcels in the future,” said Sheila Xasa, a domestic worker from CC Lloyd township, East London.

A Gauteng recipient said they were told to vote for the ANC because it would continue to give them food and services. The woman, from Diepkloof, Soweto, said they were told they would starve to death if they did not vote for the ANC. “If you know what is right for you, you will vote for the winning party,” people were told while standing in queues, the woman said.

The party officials dishing out the parcels gave preferential treatment to those wearing ANC paraphernalia.

“We know that strategy; they want us to vote for them. After the elections they will disappear. It’s food for votes. They know that we are hungry, so they target our stomachs."

The ANC has clearly learned from the Zanu-PF and their long standing tradition of buying votes from starving poor people with food. Of course it's time to play stupid....

"ANC spokesman Jessie Duarte emphatically denied the party was buying votes with food, but indicated that “it was true” that parcels were coming from an ANC-led government.

“The fact of the matter is that the ANC-led government will continue to provide social assistance,” she said.

But the IFP, DA, UDM and COPE have accused the ANC of abusing the social distress relief grants. NGOs, including the Black Sash, have also condemned the practice.

The Black Sash’s Sarah Nicklin said it was “one of the lowest, most unscrupulous forms of electioneering, especially when it leads to a scramble for food and the death of vulnerable people in need”.