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The IFP has strongly condemned the ANC Provincial Government for abusing
tax-payers' money to advance party - political campaigns. The IFP said this in a
statement issued today by its KwaZulu-Natal Human Settlements Spokesperson
Joshua Mazibuko following today's visit to Mtubatuba by Human Settlements MEC
Ravi Pillay.

MEC Pillay went to Mtubatuba to launch Sukuma Sakhe and Disaster Management
Initiatives. Reacting to the visit, Mazibuko said: "It is politically
disingenuous and cunning of the ANC to abuse the taxes paid by the poorest for
purposes of service - delivery, to advance ANC campaigns as Mtubatuba is up for
By - elections.

"I sympathise with MEC Pillay because as ANC deployee, he has to do the bidding
of his party, however repugnant. His visit today was nothing more than a
continuation of the well - known ANC's dirty strategy to charge ANC MECs and
government departments to "invade"Mtubatuba under the pretext of service
delivery. Obviously the primary objective is to politically - drug communities
into voting for ANC on May 6.

"This is not the first time that ANC government has done this. They did so
during the Nongoma and Mooi-Mpofana by-elections; as well as on many other
occasions before.

"We condemn these strategies as political thuggery of the worst order.  If ANC
are a giant they claim to be, they must have the courage to compete fairly and
honestly in the political market -place. Their dirty strategies are an indirect
admission that they have messed up so much that they need to be shock-absorbed
through vote - buying.

"We urge Mtubatuba communities not to forget that the recently - dismantled
Mtuba Municipality was messed up by the same ANC, just as they have messed up
South Africa."

Issued by IFP