United Independent Movement ready to fight for SA
Members of the United Independent Movement (UIM) are ready to ‘scream’ for change in South Africa.
Speaking at a meeting with residents at the Eddels Sports and Social Club in Pietermaritzburg on Sunday, the party’s leader, Neil de Beer, said it didn’t matter if they only got one or two councillors elected on November 1, because each and every person was ready to stand up in council and scream for the truth.
Six UIM members have been chosen to contest wards across Msunduzi in the local government elections.
They are: Abu Hurairah Magmoed Jumat (ward 30); Faiza Jumat (ward 31); Ernest Martin Sampson (ward 32); Shereen Heynes (ward 33); Andre Gerard Ramsingh (ward 28); and Sumaya Jumat (ward 24).
Wishing them well, De Beer, who was accompanied by the KwaZulu-Natal provincial chairperson, Sam Kennedy, and his deputy, Jay Singh, said all UIM councillors would be the servants of the people.
“It’s time that councillors go back to serving our people,” he added. “I don’t know why we need to pay people to care.”
De Beer said that in the past people chose to become police officers, teachers and nurses because they wanted to serve their local communities, but now people want to become politicians ‘so they can get tenders’.
In its manifesto, the UIM has vowed to put South Africa first by rejecting all forms of state, corporate and social corruption.
They also want crime to be dealt with, to the full extent of the law, and stand for the rights of citizens to have the freedom set out in the constitution.
De Beer, a former uMkhonto we Sizwe operative, told residents: “We are the old stalwarts of this country. We thought we were done. We thought we were finished. We thought we could go rest … [but] we need to go back and fight for our country.”
He said South Africa had become a place where people put up signs warning road users about potholes instead of fixing them.
“We are putting signs that say ‘high crime area’ – where are the police?,” he asked, adding: “I am going to put up a sign outside Parliament that says ‘here live thieves’.
“We need a country where potholes are fixed, we need a country where the politicians don’t steal, we need a country where you can live safely and securely.
“We are going to fight for unity, peace and reconciliation. We will fight corruption. We will defend, protect the constitution.”
He urged the party faithful to get out and spread the UIM’s message so that they can get the numbers they need to get councillors elected on November 1.
“There are three things we need to do: vote, vote on November 1 and vote for change,” De Beer said. “Don’t vote for a slogan or a person. The UIM is bigger than me. You never build an organisation around one man; you build it amongst the people. The UIM councillors are servants, they will serve the people.”
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