African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) President Kenneth Meshoe, launched a strong attack on his rivals the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in Ballito last Friday.
Addressing a rally of nearly 100 people at the Lighthouse Family Church, Ballito, Meshoe declared that the EFF’s fiscal policies would lead to financial collapse in just three years, and lambasted the proposed minimum wage as unrealistic.
The newly formed EFF may present something of an electoral threat to Meshoe’s ACDP which was founded in 1993 and contested the historic 1994 elections. The party currently has three seats in parliament, a fall from a peak in 2004 when they held seven seats. In 2011 if they had received 140 more votes they would have beaten the ANC to be second after the DA in the Ballito ward. They believe that if Christians stopped voting along “racial lines” they would garner more votes that would have gone to the ANC for black voters or the DA for their white counterparts.
Dr Meshoe told the crowd not to make the mistake of thinking that voting for a small party will be a wasted vote but highlighted the importance of making their vote count in the upcoming elections. He stressed that what South Africa needs is not a strong opposition party but rather a strong godly government. He emphasised that this is the only solution that can bring change to the state of the nation. He claimed that some South African political leaders believed in witchcraft and freemasonry and that “Satanism” manifested in children “drinking each other’s blood”.
ACDP stands for conservative Christian values and opposes abortion on demand and homosexuality. ACDP’s first KwaDukuza councillor, reverend Nel Sewraj, said under an ACDP government homosexuality would be criminalised in a similar vein to Uganda’s recent prohibitive bill.
Editors note:
It has come to the attention of the North Coast Courier that the statements made by reverend Sewraj regarding the criminalisation of homosexuality are not in line with ACDP policy. The ACDP does not oppose homosexuality unless the practice is deemed harmful for others. While civil partnerships would be legal under an ACDP leadership, the party opposes gay marriage. According to national ACDP councillor Jo Ann Downs, the local councillor’s misunderstanding may have arisen due to a press release published by the DA deputy chief whip Sally Kalyan earlier this year which erroneously stated that the ACDP opposed the DA’s condemnation of Uganda’s anti-gay bill. According to Jo Ann Downs, ACDP representatives had not been present in parliament that day. Kalyan later retracted the press release, which had already been widely disseminated.
