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Article: ANC politicians 'must keep close to the people they serve'.(News)
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- Cape Times (South Africa)
- Article date:
- July 27, 2009
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BYLINE: POLITICAL BUREAU
ANC national chairwoman Baleka Mbete has questioned whether the ruling party's structures are close enough to the people detect their anger before it explodes in violence.
"We are not in government to have many cars - we are there to use the mandate our people gave to us," she said, digressing from the theme of her main speech at the ANC provincial general council at the University of Limpopo, near Polokwane, yesterday.
Mbete warned that the local government polls in 2011 would be tougher than the general elections had been in April.
Cassel Mathale, premier of Limpopo and the ANC's chairman in the province, ...