MF confident to win the Indian vote
Minority Front hosts memorable manifesto launch.
The Minority Front leader Shameen Thakur-Rajbansi says her party is confident to retain its one seat in the national assembly and the two in the KZN legislature.
Amidst the pomp and ceremony, a well-composed Thakur Rajabansi, who was declared by the courts recently as the new leader of the Minority Front opened the party’s manifesto launch lighting candles and paying homage to her late husband and founder of the Minority Front, Amichand Rajbansi.
Speaking at the Coastlands Hotel in Durban, Rajbansi spoke like a true politician with facts and figures to back her statements. She never once minced her words saying for far too long the Indian community suffered the prejudice of affirmative action, job reservation and inadequate service deliveries to the Indian community. She said her late husband was one of the greatest sons of South Africa, of minority decent.
“He was part and parcel of the struggle against white domination, giving him the vision to persevere, leaving a legacy, the Minority Front behind to continue to take care of the marginalized, down trodden and voiceless. The MF has been through a difficult rebirth, post the demise of Mr Rajbansi, but is well poised for the May 07th elections to succeed, so that our team can help reshape South Africa with our slogan, ‘One vision and one future,” she said.
Rajbansi added, “Our late leader, played a key role at Codesa, where the principle of multi-party democracy was enshrined in the constitution. Mr Rajbansi was convinced that South Africa needed a voice for minorities in places of power and decision making, like parliament. The MF currently holds one national assembly and two provincial seats. We hope to retain our seats, but this election, the MF has embarked on the challenge of fighting the Gauteng ballot, so that Gautengers will have same benefits of a voice that promotes their interests, so that futuristic goals of the NDP 2030 of social cohesion and nation-building can be achieved.”
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