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If you thought the political party Agang, which was established by struggle stalwart Mamphela Ramphele, was dead, you might have been a bit too quick to write it off.
Agang, roughly translated as “to build” in Sesotho, will be the last of the 13 political parties represented in Parliament to launch its manifesto – just 10 days before the August 3 elections.
Its current leader, Andries Tlouamma, told City Press that the launch, scheduled for July 23, was a “strategic” move.
“We want to be the last [party] that people talk about before the elections,” he said this week.
The party was launched as a “political platform” in February 2013, but Ramphele abandoned it in 2014. These local government elections will be Agang’s first, and Tlouamma plans to ensure the party contests and wins its target of only 100 wards as it fields as many councillors.
It has decided to contest in municipalities in five provinces: Gauteng, North West, Limpopo, Free State and Mpumalanga.
The party attributed its limited participation to a lack of funding, but it also admitted that it still had “a lot of groundwork” to do in coastal provinces in terms of recruiting members before it could contest elections there.
