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Original Post Date: 2008-12-15 Time: 02:00:08 Posted By: Jan
Buoyed by his massive support in Port Elizabeth, ANC leader Jacob Zuma said former president Thabo Mbeki’s father – Govan – must be “turning in his grave” to see ANC leaders turning against each other and forming a breakaway party in his own city.
Govan Mbeki spent many years in the city after his release from Robben Island.
“What would Oom Gov say if he heard that the people of Port Elizabeth had been misled and had fallen for it – he would turn in his grave. This is the home of the ANC and not any other organisation,” Zuma said to loud applause.
The city – which is believed to be the heartland of COPE – was said to be so hostile to the ANC that Zuma had to cancel his trip two months ago.
But on Sunday Zuma addressed a capacity crowd at the Dan Qeqe stadium in Zwide township.
More than 10 000 ANC supporters and election volunteers painted the venue yellow in their ANC election T-shirts.
Pleased by the turnout in a province that is said to be slipping from the ANC’s power grip, Zuma told journalists that he was “over the moon”.
It was also the first time that Zuma had visited the region since his election as ANC president.
Zuma had to cancel a planned trip to the city in October following fears that supporters of former president Thabo Mbeki had planned to boo him – in the same fashion that Zuma’s backers did to Mbeki in Durban last year.
On Sunday, Zuma – who wrapped up his four-day visit to the Eastern Cape – was in his element and was presidential in his stride as he entered the stadium to reverberating cries of “Zuma, my president” from his supporters.
In scenes reminiscent of the 1990 welcome-back rally of Nelson Mandela at the FNB stadium, a waving Zuma walked about the venue, with other ANC leaders and heavily armed security in tow.
Zuma told his supporters that Port Elizabeth was the home of the ANC. He invoked the memory of Govan Mbeki.
He urged ANC members not to disrupt COPE events but rather to “open the door” for the breakaway party’s sympathisers to leave it.
Zuma had earlier visited the popular Bantu Church of Christ in New Brighton, where the church’s leadership pledged to encourage their membership to vote for the ANC.
The rally also marked the culmination of Zuma’s provincial visits, where he met party supporters countrywide to quell dissent following the ANC’s decision to fire Mbeki.