ANC MP Faiez Jacobs has accused the governing party of abandoning coloured, Indian and white voters and warned that it could lose out on their electoral support in next year’s crucial national and provincial polls.
The former ANC Western Cape provincial secretary said the party could miss out on up to 1% of votes from what he described as “non-African” voters – coloureds, Indians and whites – if it did not return to the non-racialism that characterised it in the 1980s and 1990s.
“It may be argued that diversity and