Mbombela

Give me, I thought it's a joke.

Because week before, I went with madam, I went with my brothers, I went out, I drove the car, I went to the Springbok and Pirates in the last game in Mbombela.

I had to go because Pirates it's, it's in me.

You won the league.

Home is where the people who love me are.

Um, there's a home in Nelspruit where my uncles, my aunts, my brother, there's a home there.

There's a home in a place called Welge, which is around the Olifants River, where my aunts on my pater- my paternal side are.

Where's the, the, where's that provincially, Welge?

The whole gang is in Mpumalanga.

Okay.

So Nelspruit, Mpumalanga, around there, yeah?

Then home is my mother's house in Bronkhorstspruit.

Independent and impartial.

The ANC in Ehlanzeni has identified the City of Mbombela and Thaba Chweu as strategic municipalities ahead of the local government elections on the fourth of November.

The party says these municipalities requires a particular leadership attention.

ANC Regional Secretary, Phola Sibui, says ANC is prepared to govern in all the municipalities.

Even if they have, uh, different views politically, they must make sure that they tolerate each other.

It remains to be seen how the ANC will perform in this upcoming local government elections.

Mutsibi Wamunareng, SABC News, Mbombela, Mpumalanga.

[upbeat music] You can find SAFM Current Affairs on one oh four to one oh seven nationwide.

They say the committee failed to provide a lawful and rational basis for reversing its original decision.

And with the elections around the corner, the ANC in Ehlanzeni in Mpumalanga says it's confident it will retain control of Mbombela.

The Regional Deputy Secretary, Siyabonga Malandule, says the party is targeting more than 75% of the vote in Mbombela and more than 80% in the Ehlanzeni District.

If you visit the latest, uh, research, it will tell you that we are very stable.

In fact, we are growing.

Currently we are sitting at 65%.

If we lose, it might be 5% or 3%, which will be at 62, if it happens.

He spoke to Jacaranda FM on the sidelines of a media briefing in Mbombela a bit earlier today.

Well, um, yeah, you won't believe it.

I was supposed to, that specific day actually, to take the Sovereign across with the National Commission to, Commissioner to Nelspruit.

But then the 500 was standing there with us in the hangar in Vanderbijlpark, and then, um, the guys in Pretoria West, they needed the helicopter for conversion training.

So I said, "You know what I'll do, is I quickly before the flight, I'll take the machine.

I'll hop across, come and pick up one of you guys, and just come and drop me.

Then you have the helicopter, and I can carry on with my flight to Nelspruit in the jet." And yeah, it's phenomenal, huh? Took off all of those, yeah, over the Magalies there at the, at the port where the waterfall thingy is-

Yes

... on the way to Pretoria West.