MHRF GUNNING FOR 50 PERCENT PLUS

BY STAFF REPOTER
MIDDELBURG – The Middelburg and Hendrina Residents Front (MHRF) says it will continue to exist post the elections period and beyond.
The organisation came into being in November last year and contested the by-elections for the first time at Ward 22 where they received 21 % (184 votes) overtaking the EFF that received 13 % after the ANC won the Ward by a 67% (589 votes).
Party chairperson and Mayoral candidate Jomo Segage told The Open House Tales, an online political channel, they will continue to exist even after the local government elections are over. “Not in our right minds that we will exist today only for elections and disappear after the elections,” he said.
“We will continue to exist .The experience is that most of the comrades form organizations but they still have an appetite to go back where they come from,” Segage said.
“It is not something that some of us have started today to reprimand to say this is not what we struggled for and our comrades laid their lives for. We struggled to liberate the people of South Africa and to make sure we bring better lives for our people,” he said.
He said his party wants to bring fresh air for the people on permanent basis. “If you are in a house and it is smelly you actually must go outside for fresh air… hence the colour green because we want to bring the fresh air. So the MHRF will be here today, tomorrow and in the future.”
“We are not going to dissolve except if there are those who still have an appetite to go back to the ANC because that is how the ANC will kill you as an emerging party,” he said.
Segage also said they are aiming for 50% of the votes in the coming local government elections. “Our ambition is to get 50% plus one so that we don’t have to talk to anybody and make sure that, based on our manifesto, we take this town [Middelburg] back to its former glory,” he said.