Date: 07/02/2004
Source: IFP
Title: Buthelezi: IFP election rally in Empangeni
In about two months time the people of South Africa will be called upon to give our Country a new direction. They will have to decide whether they are satisfied with how things are presently going and they wish to have five more years of the same, or whether they are willing to make a courageous choice to give the Country five years of something which is better. The IFP firmly believes that South Africa needs five years of something better and we cannot afford five years of the same.
In the past ten years many things have gone right and enormous progress has been achieved in a variety of fields. There is no doubt that the quality of life for many people has improved during the past ten years and that our Government has achieved enormously in delivering services to many people who did not previously have them. However, during the past five years major crises have developed within South Africa which, unless they are addressed and resolved, will take away all the gains of our liberation and will obfuscate anything else which in our Country may be good and valuable.
The people of South Africa know very well what these five crises are, as we are all indirectly or directly affected by them. I don’t need to explain to the South African people what their problems are, because they are enduring them and suffering because of them, day in and day out. What I need to tell the South African people is that there is hope if they wish to have the courage at the next elections, to enable the Country to have a new beginning by empowering the IFP and its partners, to provide South Africa with better leadership.
The crises of HIV/AIDS, crime, unemployment, poverty and corruption are very real and are known to all of us. We are all directly, or indirectly, affected by HIV/AIDS. Our entire economy stands to be destroyed because of the effect of this terrible pandemic. We know that the Government has allowed this crisis to reach proportions of a national disaster. It has been because of the neglect with which this crisis has been handled, that we are now at a point of collapse. Hundreds of thousands of people have died, especially children, when they could have been saved, or their life could have been prolonged. Hundreds of thousands of people have suffered, when they could have been helped, without adequate treatment.
The South African people must decide whether they intend to have five more years of this unattended crisis or they would rather choose to empower those like the IFP who have always proven the capacity to solve the HIV/AIDS crisis with effective measures.
We care. We have never ignored HIV/AIDS. We have suffered with those who suffered. We have cried together with those who have cried because of HIV/AIDS, day in and day out. We have neither ignored nor denied the problem and its growing magnitude. The South African people cannot continue to entrust their lives and the lives of their children in the hands of those who have given ample proof of just not caring enough, to give those who suffer the relief which is available.
The IFP is a party that cares. At the next election the South African people must give a clear message that our Country must become a caring one. It is clear that those who have gained power have forgotten about the sufferings of those whom they are supposed to represent.
For too long, not only has the HIV/AIDS crisis been denied and ignored, but similarly the Government has refused to acknowledge the magnitude of the problems with unemployment, poverty, corruption and crime. Our people are suffering by the hundreds of thousands because of unemployment and crime. Everyone I know, at one time or another, has suffered because of crime, or is afraid of becoming a victim of crime. Yet, the Government has refused to make the fight against crime a national priority and have by their attitude created a climate of impunity and lawlessness. We cannot allow this to continue nor can the South Africa people renew a mandate to govern to those who have failed in ensuring the basic right of any citizen, which is that of being safe in his own home.
This is a difficult time for the South African people, but a crucial and exciting one. For the first time in our history, our elections can indeed give direction to where the Country ought to be going. For the first time in our history, our future will in fact be determined by the message which arises out of the electoral results. We voted before in 1994 and in 1999, but the electoral result did not have the capacity of shaping the decisions which had to be made after elections. This time around may be profoundly different if the South African people send out a clear and loud message, that the ANC can no longer be trusted in ruling the Country and solving the crises of crime, HIV/AIDS, unemployment, corruption and poverty.
The cost of living for all our families is increasing day after day. All our families know that life is becoming increasingly more difficult. Larger and larger numbers of our population are becoming unemployed. These are not natural calamities, which we cannot prevent and in respect of which we remain hopeless. Our Government should have done more. We have achieved tremendously in other fields but it is a fact that not enough has been done in respect of unemployment. Our Country has failed to develop a proper vision which will enable us to acquire over time an industrial basis, capable of employing all the daughters and sons of our land.
Over and again the IFP has made concrete proposals, which may foster economic growth and broaden our Country’s bases. Over and again our proposals have not been listened to. On many occasions the merits of our proposals have been recognised, not only by independent sources, but also by the ANC itself. On several occasions the ANC has followed the IFP guidance, but only in part and with half measure solutions. It is now time to empower the IFP to get the job done to the full measure of what is required, to provide relief to the many people who are unemployed and to the many who are suffering because of poverty.
It is essential that at the next elections the South African people are not shy. Too many people feel that they do not like what the ANC is doing and they have problems with the leadership of the Country, but have not yet accepted that they have the power to change that which they do not like. It is time for change. For this reason, I have formed with the Democratic Alliance the coalition for change, to enable South Africa to have another chance to become better than what it is and fulfill the full measure of its God given potential.
I want the South African people to be able to choose. We fought so hard to give the South African people the right to vote and they should not lose it by avoiding to vote, or by voting with their eyes closed. It is time for the South African people to have the courage to not vote for those whom they don’t like and to try to give our Country an alternative, to that with which they are not satisfied. We must send out the word that by not voting, the South African people are effectively relinquishing the right to vote, which we fought so hard to conquer for them. By not voting is not the way in which democracy works. If people are dissatisfied with what Government is performing, or the quality of service they receive, people must be able to give to the whole of the Country the benefit of a better and different leadership.
In this Province the IFP has been the government of the day for ten years, and what we have done has been severely limited by the constraints placed on us by the central government. During the negotiation process we’ve hoped for a federal system, which would enable us to do more and better at the provincial level.
It is essential that the IFP be empowered to do more and better in this Province, by securing an absolute majority so that this Province will no longer be paralyzed by the fact that the IFP has an insufficient majority to do what is necessary to meet the needs, wants and aspirations of the people of KwaZulu Natal. KwaZulu Natal is a leader anywhere in South Africa and is one of the most effectively governed provinces in the Country. It is a Province which is debt free and has one of the most effective administration and service delivery machinery. We have done wonders in this Province in spite of the difficulties. However, we could have done much more had we had more support at the elections.
It is essential that at the next elections much better support is given to the IFP, in order for us to not only complete the job which we have started, but give us the opportunity to shift into a higher gear of service delivery and care for our people. We have done a lot. We can do more. However, it is also essential to empower the IFP at the national level, because until the IFP is empowered at the national level, what we can do in KwaZulu Natal remains limited.
We have worked very hard to protect the institution of traditional leadership because we recognise the value it has for development and the prosperity of rural communities. We have worked very hard in this Province to promote economic development across the board. Our coalition with the DA has placed economic development on a much faster pace and there are increasing signs of greater delivery and economic growth in our Province. However, what we have done thus far is nothing but a small portion of what we can do when the IFP has a much firmer grip on the leverage of power within this Province. It is extremely difficult to do what the people of this Province demand and expect, when the IFP is constantly held back by the ANC in this Province and the many conflicts which the ANC generates, to ensure that the IFP cannot succeed in serving the people.
The history of KwaZulu Natal for the past ten years has been one of constant undermining of the IFP Government. Nonetheless, we have succeeded in excelling in service delivery. If the element of constant undermining is eliminated, we can do much better and deliver faster and on a much broader scale. Our commitment is to ensure that this important result is secured, not only for the people of KwaZulu Natal, but for the whole of South Africa. In fact, KwaZulu Natal has now become the battlefield on which the battle for democracy is finally going to be played out. If KwaZulu Natal falls under the ANC hegemony, there will not be any autonomous government, which can think differently and achieve more than what is prescribed from the central level. KwaZulu Natal must remain the engine of democracy of South Africa.
The people of KwaZulu Natal have a special responsibility at the next elections to ensure that the whole of the Country may continue to receive the blessings of democracy. Unless the people of KwaZulu Natal rise to this challenge, which is placed before them and confirm the power of the IFP to protect democracy, the doors will be wide open for the consolidation of a one-party state. We should make no mistake about the type of damage which the lack of democracy can generate in any given society. We need to look no further than our own boundaries in the north, to see how one of the most prosperous African countries has been destroyed to ashes, because of lack of democracy, and autocratic rule. Where there once was prosperity, now people have no jobs, no food and no security and they are constantly victims of crimes and lawlessness. That is not what we wish for our Country. For this reason it is essential that our democracy must continue to flourish, even though this often is at times a difficult path to walk.
KwaZulu Natal has the responsibility to ensure that democracy may survive and this responsibility now falls on the shoulders of each and every citizen of KwaZulu Natal, who must ensure that on election day they will be going to the voter’s stations, and cast his or her vote for the IFP.
I am not asking the people of KwaZulu Natal to vote for the IFP just on our account. I am asking them to do so for the sake of democracy. Together we can solve the many problems confronting South Africa. Let us make no mistake. If we don’t do so. Nobody else will.
It was quite surprising that just yesterday, when the President delivered his State of the Nation Address, he gave no indication on how he, himself, and his party intend to solve South Africa’s problems. There was nothing new in his address and effectively he continued to promise that the future will be exactly as the past was. He gave no indication of how the problems of unemployment, HIV/AIDS, crime and poverty will be solved.
We did not even receive the benefit of the promises contained in the ANC Manifesto, which suggested that the ANC’s own Government is not going to make a statement that those promises will in fact be implemented through Government’s actions. For instance, the President did not even confirm that an additional one hundred and fifty thousand policemen will in fact be deployed to fight crime. Over and again, during the Presidential Imbizo in KwaZulu Natal, ordinary people asked the President when the roll-out of anti-retroviral drugs will begin and were not able to receive any response. The whole of South Africa did not receive a response from the President during the State of the Nation Address and there is still no indication of whether, or when, anti-retroviral drugs will in fact be rolled out to all those who need them or may use them.
There is a huge gap between what the people want and what they can expect from the ANC Government. It is our responsibility to fill that gap, because we care for the people of South Africa and we understand the people of South Africa. I have lived amongst the people of South Africa all my life. I have never abandoned the people of South Africa. I have been amongst the poorest of the poor all my life. I don’t need to be educated about what poverty is.
We must re-introduce in our politics the commitment of people who care for all South Africans. It is not a matter of going around the Country every now and then to find out what people want. Real leadership is about knowing what people want in your blood, in your guts and first and foremost, in your heart.
No night goes by without my spending sleepless time feeling how the suffering people of our Country have been waiting for so long for a relief to their pain and anguish, which is still to come. We have fought so long for fifty years to bring about freedom, but the struggle must go on for freedom was nothing but a platform to achieve our real goals. The real goal for which I have fought all my life and to which I have dedicated my entire existence, is that of a genuine liberation of our people, from the enslavement of poverty, ignorance for lack of education and underdevelopment.
South Africa will only be free when all its citizens will have equal dignity and will all be entitled to the opportunity of a life free from needs and wants. To that dream we have dedicated our lives and we shall continue to pursue it, because we do not believe that we have arrived as certain people, who are now in Government, seem to believe.
For this reason it is important that we infuse again, into the Government of South Africa, the spirit of the struggle that was and the spirit of the struggle which must be. Those who have arrived have become complacent and no longer care as they used to. I wish to receive a mandate from the people of this region to keep the struggle alive to bring back into the Government of South Africa the crying voice of the suffering people of our Nation, as well as the hopes of our children, that tomorrow will indeed be the beginning of a new age in which South Africa may finally succeed in fulfilling its promise for a better future.
We must have the courage to believe that we can make a change. I urge all of you to have this courage, because together we can indeed move the mountains. Today we have the faith of those who were moved by a mission which seems to be larger than our own. The mission seems impossible but our faith is stronger. The mission may be larger than our own resources but is not larger than the faith we placed in the destiny which moves us. May God reward us for the faith we placed in what we need to do out of our love for South Africa. I urge all of you to have as much faith as I do and seek together the protection of God Almighty so that we may succeed in our endeavours. I urge all of you to become engines of this electoral campaign. Go out there and speak with as many people as you can, convincing them that election day must be the beginning of a peaceful revolution of goodwill, which will bring to power the forces of good and the power of hope.
Don’t be passive. Winning the election is not merely about each of you voting for the IFP. Winning the election is primarily about each of you convincing a very large number of people, not only to vote IFP themselves, but for each of them to go out there and convince other people to vote IFP.
We need to create this chain which, from ripple to ripple, from stream to stream and from river to river may create a landslide victory, not just for ourselves, but for the forces of good, hope and renewal, which we represent. Let us have the courage to believe in the hope of this renewal, because if we embrace this mission, we shall indeed rise to be as large as our dream now seems. I trust the people of South Africa. I count on the people of South Africa. I know the greatness and power of the people of South Africa. May God Almighty assist the people of South Africa in bringing renewal to our Country and may God Almighty bless and protect each of you, inspiring you to become what saves our Country from its many threats and its many problems. The people of South Africa can succeed, where its Government has failed it, and now is the time for the people of South Africa, through their vote, to make a loud statement that we are turning the page and beginning a new chapter in which the IFP will finally be able to provide the full measure of leadership of which it is undoubtedly capable. May God help us and assist us all.
I thank you.
February 7, 2004
Inkatha Freedom Party
Source: IFP
Title: Buthelezi: IFP election rally in Empangeni
In about two months time the people of South Africa will be called upon to give our Country a new direction. They will have to decide whether they are satisfied with how things are presently going and they wish to have five more years of the same, or whether they are willing to make a courageous choice to give the Country five years of something which is better. The IFP firmly believes that South Africa needs five years of something better and we cannot afford five years of the same.
In the past ten years many things have gone right and enormous progress has been achieved in a variety of fields. There is no doubt that the quality of life for many people has improved during the past ten years and that our Government has achieved enormously in delivering services to many people who did not previously have them. However, during the past five years major crises have developed within South Africa which, unless they are addressed and resolved, will take away all the gains of our liberation and will obfuscate anything else which in our Country may be good and valuable.
The people of South Africa know very well what these five crises are, as we are all indirectly or directly affected by them. I don’t need to explain to the South African people what their problems are, because they are enduring them and suffering because of them, day in and day out. What I need to tell the South African people is that there is hope if they wish to have the courage at the next elections, to enable the Country to have a new beginning by empowering the IFP and its partners, to provide South Africa with better leadership.
The crises of HIV/AIDS, crime, unemployment, poverty and corruption are very real and are known to all of us. We are all directly, or indirectly, affected by HIV/AIDS. Our entire economy stands to be destroyed because of the effect of this terrible pandemic. We know that the Government has allowed this crisis to reach proportions of a national disaster. It has been because of the neglect with which this crisis has been handled, that we are now at a point of collapse. Hundreds of thousands of people have died, especially children, when they could have been saved, or their life could have been prolonged. Hundreds of thousands of people have suffered, when they could have been helped, without adequate treatment.
The South African people must decide whether they intend to have five more years of this unattended crisis or they would rather choose to empower those like the IFP who have always proven the capacity to solve the HIV/AIDS crisis with effective measures.
We care. We have never ignored HIV/AIDS. We have suffered with those who suffered. We have cried together with those who have cried because of HIV/AIDS, day in and day out. We have neither ignored nor denied the problem and its growing magnitude. The South African people cannot continue to entrust their lives and the lives of their children in the hands of those who have given ample proof of just not caring enough, to give those who suffer the relief which is available.
The IFP is a party that cares. At the next election the South African people must give a clear message that our Country must become a caring one. It is clear that those who have gained power have forgotten about the sufferings of those whom they are supposed to represent.
For too long, not only has the HIV/AIDS crisis been denied and ignored, but similarly the Government has refused to acknowledge the magnitude of the problems with unemployment, poverty, corruption and crime. Our people are suffering by the hundreds of thousands because of unemployment and crime. Everyone I know, at one time or another, has suffered because of crime, or is afraid of becoming a victim of crime. Yet, the Government has refused to make the fight against crime a national priority and have by their attitude created a climate of impunity and lawlessness. We cannot allow this to continue nor can the South Africa people renew a mandate to govern to those who have failed in ensuring the basic right of any citizen, which is that of being safe in his own home.
This is a difficult time for the South African people, but a crucial and exciting one. For the first time in our history, our elections can indeed give direction to where the Country ought to be going. For the first time in our history, our future will in fact be determined by the message which arises out of the electoral results. We voted before in 1994 and in 1999, but the electoral result did not have the capacity of shaping the decisions which had to be made after elections. This time around may be profoundly different if the South African people send out a clear and loud message, that the ANC can no longer be trusted in ruling the Country and solving the crises of crime, HIV/AIDS, unemployment, corruption and poverty.
The cost of living for all our families is increasing day after day. All our families know that life is becoming increasingly more difficult. Larger and larger numbers of our population are becoming unemployed. These are not natural calamities, which we cannot prevent and in respect of which we remain hopeless. Our Government should have done more. We have achieved tremendously in other fields but it is a fact that not enough has been done in respect of unemployment. Our Country has failed to develop a proper vision which will enable us to acquire over time an industrial basis, capable of employing all the daughters and sons of our land.
Over and again the IFP has made concrete proposals, which may foster economic growth and broaden our Country’s bases. Over and again our proposals have not been listened to. On many occasions the merits of our proposals have been recognised, not only by independent sources, but also by the ANC itself. On several occasions the ANC has followed the IFP guidance, but only in part and with half measure solutions. It is now time to empower the IFP to get the job done to the full measure of what is required, to provide relief to the many people who are unemployed and to the many who are suffering because of poverty.
It is essential that at the next elections the South African people are not shy. Too many people feel that they do not like what the ANC is doing and they have problems with the leadership of the Country, but have not yet accepted that they have the power to change that which they do not like. It is time for change. For this reason, I have formed with the Democratic Alliance the coalition for change, to enable South Africa to have another chance to become better than what it is and fulfill the full measure of its God given potential.
I want the South African people to be able to choose. We fought so hard to give the South African people the right to vote and they should not lose it by avoiding to vote, or by voting with their eyes closed. It is time for the South African people to have the courage to not vote for those whom they don’t like and to try to give our Country an alternative, to that with which they are not satisfied. We must send out the word that by not voting, the South African people are effectively relinquishing the right to vote, which we fought so hard to conquer for them. By not voting is not the way in which democracy works. If people are dissatisfied with what Government is performing, or the quality of service they receive, people must be able to give to the whole of the Country the benefit of a better and different leadership.
In this Province the IFP has been the government of the day for ten years, and what we have done has been severely limited by the constraints placed on us by the central government. During the negotiation process we’ve hoped for a federal system, which would enable us to do more and better at the provincial level.
It is essential that the IFP be empowered to do more and better in this Province, by securing an absolute majority so that this Province will no longer be paralyzed by the fact that the IFP has an insufficient majority to do what is necessary to meet the needs, wants and aspirations of the people of KwaZulu Natal. KwaZulu Natal is a leader anywhere in South Africa and is one of the most effectively governed provinces in the Country. It is a Province which is debt free and has one of the most effective administration and service delivery machinery. We have done wonders in this Province in spite of the difficulties. However, we could have done much more had we had more support at the elections.
It is essential that at the next elections much better support is given to the IFP, in order for us to not only complete the job which we have started, but give us the opportunity to shift into a higher gear of service delivery and care for our people. We have done a lot. We can do more. However, it is also essential to empower the IFP at the national level, because until the IFP is empowered at the national level, what we can do in KwaZulu Natal remains limited.
We have worked very hard to protect the institution of traditional leadership because we recognise the value it has for development and the prosperity of rural communities. We have worked very hard in this Province to promote economic development across the board. Our coalition with the DA has placed economic development on a much faster pace and there are increasing signs of greater delivery and economic growth in our Province. However, what we have done thus far is nothing but a small portion of what we can do when the IFP has a much firmer grip on the leverage of power within this Province. It is extremely difficult to do what the people of this Province demand and expect, when the IFP is constantly held back by the ANC in this Province and the many conflicts which the ANC generates, to ensure that the IFP cannot succeed in serving the people.
The history of KwaZulu Natal for the past ten years has been one of constant undermining of the IFP Government. Nonetheless, we have succeeded in excelling in service delivery. If the element of constant undermining is eliminated, we can do much better and deliver faster and on a much broader scale. Our commitment is to ensure that this important result is secured, not only for the people of KwaZulu Natal, but for the whole of South Africa. In fact, KwaZulu Natal has now become the battlefield on which the battle for democracy is finally going to be played out. If KwaZulu Natal falls under the ANC hegemony, there will not be any autonomous government, which can think differently and achieve more than what is prescribed from the central level. KwaZulu Natal must remain the engine of democracy of South Africa.
The people of KwaZulu Natal have a special responsibility at the next elections to ensure that the whole of the Country may continue to receive the blessings of democracy. Unless the people of KwaZulu Natal rise to this challenge, which is placed before them and confirm the power of the IFP to protect democracy, the doors will be wide open for the consolidation of a one-party state. We should make no mistake about the type of damage which the lack of democracy can generate in any given society. We need to look no further than our own boundaries in the north, to see how one of the most prosperous African countries has been destroyed to ashes, because of lack of democracy, and autocratic rule. Where there once was prosperity, now people have no jobs, no food and no security and they are constantly victims of crimes and lawlessness. That is not what we wish for our Country. For this reason it is essential that our democracy must continue to flourish, even though this often is at times a difficult path to walk.
KwaZulu Natal has the responsibility to ensure that democracy may survive and this responsibility now falls on the shoulders of each and every citizen of KwaZulu Natal, who must ensure that on election day they will be going to the voter’s stations, and cast his or her vote for the IFP.
I am not asking the people of KwaZulu Natal to vote for the IFP just on our account. I am asking them to do so for the sake of democracy. Together we can solve the many problems confronting South Africa. Let us make no mistake. If we don’t do so. Nobody else will.
It was quite surprising that just yesterday, when the President delivered his State of the Nation Address, he gave no indication on how he, himself, and his party intend to solve South Africa’s problems. There was nothing new in his address and effectively he continued to promise that the future will be exactly as the past was. He gave no indication of how the problems of unemployment, HIV/AIDS, crime and poverty will be solved.
We did not even receive the benefit of the promises contained in the ANC Manifesto, which suggested that the ANC’s own Government is not going to make a statement that those promises will in fact be implemented through Government’s actions. For instance, the President did not even confirm that an additional one hundred and fifty thousand policemen will in fact be deployed to fight crime. Over and again, during the Presidential Imbizo in KwaZulu Natal, ordinary people asked the President when the roll-out of anti-retroviral drugs will begin and were not able to receive any response. The whole of South Africa did not receive a response from the President during the State of the Nation Address and there is still no indication of whether, or when, anti-retroviral drugs will in fact be rolled out to all those who need them or may use them.
There is a huge gap between what the people want and what they can expect from the ANC Government. It is our responsibility to fill that gap, because we care for the people of South Africa and we understand the people of South Africa. I have lived amongst the people of South Africa all my life. I have never abandoned the people of South Africa. I have been amongst the poorest of the poor all my life. I don’t need to be educated about what poverty is.
We must re-introduce in our politics the commitment of people who care for all South Africans. It is not a matter of going around the Country every now and then to find out what people want. Real leadership is about knowing what people want in your blood, in your guts and first and foremost, in your heart.
No night goes by without my spending sleepless time feeling how the suffering people of our Country have been waiting for so long for a relief to their pain and anguish, which is still to come. We have fought so long for fifty years to bring about freedom, but the struggle must go on for freedom was nothing but a platform to achieve our real goals. The real goal for which I have fought all my life and to which I have dedicated my entire existence, is that of a genuine liberation of our people, from the enslavement of poverty, ignorance for lack of education and underdevelopment.
South Africa will only be free when all its citizens will have equal dignity and will all be entitled to the opportunity of a life free from needs and wants. To that dream we have dedicated our lives and we shall continue to pursue it, because we do not believe that we have arrived as certain people, who are now in Government, seem to believe.
For this reason it is important that we infuse again, into the Government of South Africa, the spirit of the struggle that was and the spirit of the struggle which must be. Those who have arrived have become complacent and no longer care as they used to. I wish to receive a mandate from the people of this region to keep the struggle alive to bring back into the Government of South Africa the crying voice of the suffering people of our Nation, as well as the hopes of our children, that tomorrow will indeed be the beginning of a new age in which South Africa may finally succeed in fulfilling its promise for a better future.
We must have the courage to believe that we can make a change. I urge all of you to have this courage, because together we can indeed move the mountains. Today we have the faith of those who were moved by a mission which seems to be larger than our own. The mission seems impossible but our faith is stronger. The mission may be larger than our own resources but is not larger than the faith we placed in the destiny which moves us. May God reward us for the faith we placed in what we need to do out of our love for South Africa. I urge all of you to have as much faith as I do and seek together the protection of God Almighty so that we may succeed in our endeavours. I urge all of you to become engines of this electoral campaign. Go out there and speak with as many people as you can, convincing them that election day must be the beginning of a peaceful revolution of goodwill, which will bring to power the forces of good and the power of hope.
Don’t be passive. Winning the election is not merely about each of you voting for the IFP. Winning the election is primarily about each of you convincing a very large number of people, not only to vote IFP themselves, but for each of them to go out there and convince other people to vote IFP.
We need to create this chain which, from ripple to ripple, from stream to stream and from river to river may create a landslide victory, not just for ourselves, but for the forces of good, hope and renewal, which we represent. Let us have the courage to believe in the hope of this renewal, because if we embrace this mission, we shall indeed rise to be as large as our dream now seems. I trust the people of South Africa. I count on the people of South Africa. I know the greatness and power of the people of South Africa. May God Almighty assist the people of South Africa in bringing renewal to our Country and may God Almighty bless and protect each of you, inspiring you to become what saves our Country from its many threats and its many problems. The people of South Africa can succeed, where its Government has failed it, and now is the time for the people of South Africa, through their vote, to make a loud statement that we are turning the page and beginning a new chapter in which the IFP will finally be able to provide the full measure of leadership of which it is undoubtedly capable. May God help us and assist us all.
I thank you.
February 7, 2004
Inkatha Freedom Party
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