KaMakwaza-Msibi to launch NFP manifesto in Vryheid
National Freedom Party supporters have gathered at the Cecil Emmet Stadium in Vryheid in northern KwaZulu-Natal in anticipation of their president's first major public address in 17 months.
Zanele KaMagwaza-Msibi is expected to launch the party's election manifesto in a short while.
NFP Youth Movement president - Sibusiso Mncwabe says there's excitement around the stadium as they await KaMagwaza-Msibi's arrival.
"Everyone is looking forward to seeing the leader almost two years of sick leave. Everyone is waiting for that exciting moment," he said.
Mncwabe says South Africans should vote for the NFP because they put communities' interests first.
"Our main slogan is 'Nothing else but service delivery to our people'. That is why we are saying people have tested all these old parties [and it is] clear that they are failing to deliver now. Where we are governing - in the municipalities in which we are governing - there are no riots, no burning of schools, no service delivery protests - because we do our job accordingly," he added.
KaMagwaza-Msibi, who is also the Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, suffered a stroke in November 2014 and was not seen in public until earlier this year during one of the voter registration drives.
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