IFP Gauteng chair urges voter turnout ahead of local elections

Inkatha Freedom Party IFP Gauteng Chairperson Bonginkosi Dhlamini has urged South Africans not to sit at home but exercise their right to vote in the upcoming local government elections.

Dhlamini spoke to SABC News in Westonaria, West of Johannesburg, where the party is commemorating Freedom Day.

FREEDOM DAY | The Inkatha Freedom Party is commemorating Freedom Day with an event at the Banquet Hall in Westonaria, Gauteng. Velenkosini Hlabisa is addressing attendees. pic.twitter.com/Qhx7jYkqQi

— SABC News (@SABCNews) April 27, 2026

The IFP Gauteng chairperson says that South Africans must vote for parties that will be able to restore the hope and the promise of 1994.

“Therefore, today as the IFP, we are celebrating this day to make sure that and emphasize to our people that it was only the right to vote that changed South Africa from Apartheid to a democracy. Even now, if we want to change South Africa from a corruption, from a laissez-faire, to working for our people, to making sure that we solve the real enemies of our people, which is poverty, which is unemployment, which is crime, which is illegal, unregistered foreigners, it’s through a vote and empowering those parties that will be able, when they sit at the table with other parties in governance, as we are doing currently.”

FREEDOM DAY | IFP leader Velenkosini Hlabisa says for far too many the full promise of freedom remains unrealised, adding that freedom is incomplete for millions who wake up each day to hunger, fear and despair. pic.twitter.com/Dp0g17lOiM

— SABC News (@SABCNews) April 27, 2026