ActionSA unveils Zwakele Mncwango as KZN Premier candidate
During the press briefing, ActionSA President Herman Mashaba unveiled Zwakele ‘ActionMan’ Mncwango as the party’s Premier Candidate.
As the road to the 2024 elections has started, ActionSA unveiled its KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Premier candidate today, Monday, 13 November.
ACTIONSA NAMES ITS KZN PREMIER CANDIDATE
During the press briefing, party President Herman Mashaba unveiled Zwakele ‘ActionMan’ Mncwango as the party’s Premier Candidate.
“Mncwango’s unwavering commitment to public service and his deep understanding of the challenges faced by KwaZulu-Natal residents make him the ideal leader to represent our vision for the province when we enter government next year,” said the party president.
“Zwakele’s extensive record of service to the people of KwaZulu-Natal exemplifies the calibre of leadership we hope to bring when we enter government next year.”- Mashaba
ALSO READ: Former DA KZN leader, Zwakele Mncwango, has joined ActionSA
RESPONSIBILITY NOTHING NEW FOR MNCWANGO
Mncgwango is no stranger to this position, before exiting the Democratic Alliance (DA), he was the party’s KwaZulu-Natal Premier candidate for the 2019 election. He was also a Member of the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature from 2018 to 2022 and served as the Leader of the Opposition in the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature from 2018 to 2019.
“I joined the green machine a little over a year ago, and quickly realised that I had finally found a place I can comfortably call home, a place that shares the same vision as I do for our beautiful country, and a place that believes we can achieve a non-racial society, believes in economic, ethical leadership and quality education for all South Africans to name a few,” said Mncwango after the endorsement.
ALSO READ: Chris Pappas: Who is DA’s KZN Premier candidate?
ACHIEVEMENTS SINCE JOINING ACTIONSA
“Within just a few months of becoming a leader for our party in the province, through the assistance of our members, we were able to restructure the PEC, and have appointed well-equipped and ‘ready to work’ leaders in all ten (10) of our District Municipalities, as well as our Metropolitan Municipality, eThekwini. We have successfully launched seventy-nine (79) branches across all District Municipalities, and we continue to do so without any intention to slow down.” – Mncwango
“We must ensure that we elect leaders who are honest and have integrity.
— ActionSA (@Action4SA) November 13, 2023
There is no use in talking about good governance, and then sending criminals to Parliament.” – @ZwakeleM, ActionSA KwaZulu-Natal Premier Candidate pic.twitter.com/bTLf3jnr9j
He added: “On the 5th of April 2023, we contested our first-ever by-election in the province, in ward 11 of KwaNongoma Municipality, gaining significant support from the people of the ward, which allowed us to gain votes from the ANC, IFP, EFF and the NFP, which placed ActionSA in the third position after seeing a 10.2% growth”.
Finally, he remarked that the party is growing very nicely and steadily.
“We remain the effective opposition, although we are not the official opposition,” he concluded.
ALSO READ: Cape Town’s most affordable neighbourhoods