President Cyril Ramaphosa greets workers at the Worker’s Day commemorative event at the Isaac Wolfson Stadium in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape province today, Tuesday, 1 May 2018. Picture: ANC Communications
During the ANC’s electioneering campaign, called Thuma Mina, in Tembisa today, a shack caught fire as the party’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, was addressing residents of the location’s Tswelopele informal settlement.
News24 reports the fire – suspected to be caused by a primus stove – gutted the shack as Ramaphosa was talking about the need for electricity and decent housing to be provided for residents of the informal settlement.
Some residents reportedly offered a hand at attempts to douse the flames and salvage whatever they could from the fire.
The Thuma Mina campaign focuses on service delivery, and it began today as the president of the country and state embarked on a walkabout in Tembisa.
The party’s leadership entourage left for the campaign’s next stop after the fire engulfed the shack in the area.
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