New Age2.png Zuma T-shirts a winner Dennis Cruywagen, The New Age, Johannesburg, 20 July 2016 Bellville railway station in the Western Cape is a major junction where trains, buses, and taxis drop off and collect commuters every working day. The town, once a stronghold of the National Party in Cape Town's northern suburbs, is also a major business node. Thousands of commuters and workers pour into Bellville daily and are therefore a prime target for political parties to persuade voters to back them on August 3 in the local government elections. With July, a month usually associated with winter and rain in Cape Town, the ANC yesterday tried to squeeze as much as possible out of an election blitz in Bellville. The day started with cold weather, rain and wet pavements greeting the ANC party that arrived at the station at 6am. At that time of the morning there were only a few commuters around but that did not dampen the spirits of Cape Town mayoral candidate Xolani Sotashe, provincial spokesperson Jabu Mafusi and their team. Xolani Sotashe.jpg Waiting for the arrival of national elections head Nomvula Mokonyane, they retreated to a nearby coffee shop to fine tune their strategies. >From around 6.45am, workers arrived in their hundreds to be greeted by enthusiastic ANC campaigners. The art of campaigning lies in a cheerful face, friendly greetings, an ability not to show offence, perseverance and to keep on smiling. That's what the volunteers did, even if a commuter rebuffed them. Sotashe chose his point carefully. He stood in front of food outlets popular with commuters. He handed out pamphlets in the station and at the taxi rank, but the pamphlets were not the most popular ANC giveaway yesterday. That honour went to the party's election T-shirt, which carries the image of ANC president Jacob Zuma. Sotashe's party brought 2000 of the T-shirts with them and they were snapped up within 45 minutes as enthusiastic workers queued for them at the station. The lesson was not lost on Sotashe who said the ANC would have to have many more of these election's T-shirts available when President Jacob Zuma becomes the star seller of the campaign in the Western Cape tomorrow. [email protected] From: http://tnaepaper.co.za/DRIVE/main%20edition/20072016/epaperpdf/4.pdf __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 13830 (20160720) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/003001d1e24a%24b1c28e70%241547ab50%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
