The African Congress for Transformation (ACT) says its Local Government Elections (LGE) Manifesto will focus on practical solutions to challenges facing communities.

ACT President-General, Ace Magashule, says the party has identified key priorities including education, unemployment, poverty, infrastructure, water and electricity provision, potholes and drug abuse.

Magashule was speaking at the launch of the party’s election Manifesto in Welkom, in the Free State. He says the party wants to restore hope and public confidence in local government.

ACT, he says, will also consult communities in municipalities where it wins elections before deciding on mayoral leadership.

“I hear people saying load shedding is done, but you can see that these things are not done. These things are still there. Potholes, everything, hopelessness, unemployment, drugs. This is what we are actually addressing in our manifesto. And we don’t promise people that in 100 days we will do something. In those 100 days, we should be consulting them and saying, this is what we find in this municipality. And that’s why we don’t even have mayoral candidates because we still want to go to communities where we win and say, ‘who do you want as a mayor candidate?’ So that we listen to our people,” says Magashule… https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/act-manifesto-targets-practical-solutions-for-communities/