‘Robbed’ of votes, says Hlaudi

HLAUDI Motsoeneng, pictured, yesterday remained adamant his political party, the African Content Movement, was robbed of votes.

He remained defiant he would “rule” South Africa one day. “This movement is only four months old and the reality is that we could not reach all the corners of South Africa.

“If you look at the people who voted for us, that is the corner that I reached. But all people of South Africa in all provinces have voted for ACM.

“They have rigged these votes. We have 5 000 party agents and they have already voted. If 5 000 party agents voted, you can’t have that number.

“That number is misleading. People who voted in some of the voting stations said we got zero percent when our people have voted for us,” Motsoeneng said.

After 15.2 million votes, or 92.2%, were counted by yesterday afternoon, ACM only managed 3 967 votes nationally, way off the mark of the number required for a parliamentary seat. Motsoeneng slammed the Independent Election Commission (IEC) saying it wanted to pronounce the results when it had acknowledged some shortcomings in conducting them.

“We want this election to be re-run. In any case, the IEC has accepted that there were problems and they had even arrested people. If you have arrested people, why do you want to pronounce elections because you know that they are not fair, you have given our numbers to other people.

“If we did very bad, it was supposed to be around 30 000 that voted for ACM. In any case, people are afraid of Hlaudi because they are afraid that if I take government, South Africa is going to change within six months.

“We believe the ACM has done well and we were cheated,” he said.

The IEC said there was no evidence of double voting as was suspected.

“I’m comfortable that we are the future governing party in South Africa.

“I was not aiming for a seat, I’m aiming to take the country.

“I funded my campaign out of my pocket,” Motsoeneng said. | African News Agency (ANA)