The National Freedom Party says it plans to win five percent of the national vote in the 2014 elections.
|||The national Freedom Party marked its first anniversary on Monday by unveiling its plan to wrest KwaZulu-Natal from the ANC and win five percent of the national vote in the 2014 elections.
If it failed in those endeavours, it would work to become the official opposition in KwaZulu-Natal, party president Zanele kaMagwaza-Msibi said.
Taking stock of the past 12 months, KaMagwaza-Msibi said the NFP had defied negative forecasts by political pundits by registering a “splendid” showing in last year’s local government elections.
“Months after our launch, we attracted 1.2 million voters, won 227 council seats throughout the country and we are co-governing with the ANC in a number of municipalities in KwaZulu-Natal.
“I also managed to return to the Zululand district municipality as mayor,” she said.
Buoyed by these successes, the NFP was spreading it’s wings nationally and was aiming to make impressive gains in 2014 and beyond.
“We want to make service delivery a reality,” she said, adding that she would use the celebrations to spell out the “evidence-based” policies of her party, adding that the central plank of NFP policy was rural development.
The provincial government’s industrial base had, for decades, been the Durban-Pinetown-Pietermaritzburg axis. This was expanding up the North Coast, through uMhlanga in the direction of King Shaka International Airport. However, her party would lobby the provincial government to shift to a dual industrial axis policy. “The province should develop a Richards Bay-Empangeni-Ulundi industrial axis.”
The party would start its first anniversary celebrations with a rally at Currie’s Fountain Stadium on February 12. - The Mercury