Vytjie Mentor joins ACDP

Former ANC MP Vytjie Mentor will be not only voting for the African Christian Democratic Party in the upcoming elections, she will be part of them. The party announced that it would hold a press conference on Thursday to welcome Mentor “and others” to the ACDP.

The African Christian Democratic Party will hold a media conference on Thursday, 28 March 2019, to welcome Vytjie Mentor and others to ACDP
Date: Thursday, 28 March 2019

Time: 11:00

Venue: Committee Room E249, 2nd Floor, New Wing, National Assembly Building, Parliament

— ACDP South Africa (@A_C_D_P) March 26, 2019

Mentor posted a picture of a Bible on Facebook and captioned it: “Good morning world”, though most of her followers only noticed the cake instead of her attempt at announcing that she had joined the Christian movement.

The outspoken former MP has recently been using reports on everything the ANC is doing to encourage her followers not to vote for it.

“Load shedding affects everything in the homes, business, and institutions badly. A lecturer friend of mine tells me their university calendar is getting behind due to load shedding. Cell and cellphone communication has become bad during load shedding, imagine having to call an ambulance for someone gravely ill and whose life entirely depends on getting help within a very short period of time.

“Students can’t access internet easily when there is [a] power failure. Small businesses are becoming bankrupted (and where is Lindiwe Zulu by the way?), more house break-ins have occurred since the rolling power shedding has become the norm. Why vote for them? Don’t vote for them!”

Her posts were not well received by ANC supporters, who send her messages every day asking her to “stop decampaigning the ANC”, she has claimed.

“Today the message extended to saying I will lose 80% of my supporters (I wonder how that percentage was arrived at) if I don’t stop writing negative messages about the ANC (on my wall).”

Mentor sprang to prominence for her claims that the Gupta family tried to bribe or otherwise influence her. She has testified about it at the Zondo commission of inquiry.

She once even claimed that former president Jacob Zuma made an attempt to harass her sexually, but she smacked him in the face with her handbag.

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