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What are the options for the Indian vote?

CAN Patrick Pillay crack it while his posters are disappearing just as fast as they went up?

Pillay is running with a lot of no-name hopefuls in his one-man party, the Democratic Liberal Congress (DLC).

Can Shameen Thakur-Rajbansi bring the Indians home to the depleted Minority Front (MF)?

Has she provided homes for the homeless, land for the landless or jobs for the jobless?

We must not forget that Amichand Rajbansi sold the MF vote to the ANC, so it won, took over the eThekwini Municipality and was the start of all our troubles.

The ANC made him the MEC for sports. Shameen got the position that veterans Patrick Pillay and Visvin Reddy were denied.

Out of the seven MF candidates, six are Hindi speaking and only one is Tamil speaking. This speaks volumes .

Minorities of South Africa (Mosa), with Ronnie Veeran for mayor, is a pipe dream indeed.

With his bedfellow Roy Moodley, both ex-DA, then ex-ANC, with old former pal Omie Singh, couldn’t win back their respective wards 49 and 48. Now they are trading as Mosa, hoping to get the vote of Mosee, Nani, Thatha, Akka and Kala.

We, Indians, are proudly the second-largest population group in the world. After joining the ANC or DA, they turned us into a minority. Think big, fellas, and grow.

The DA, without a doubt, will win most of the wards in Phoenix and other Indian majority townships. Not because it is the best. Simply because there is no safer alternative than trusting its white leadership to deliver as they do in the Western Cape. But this is Durban and the DA hasn’t delivered to us Indians yet.

The new kids on the block, Action SA, is a breakaway party from the DA, led by former Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba.

Makhosi Khoza, the fine lady for Durban mayor, who ditched the ANC, gets my approval. As someone to be given a first and fair chance to prove themselves to run Durban, Visvin Reddy, the leader of the African Democratic Change (ADeC), can't cut it as he failed us as a former MF and a former ANC member. He must retire.

Any Indian who votes for the EFF votes for the leadership of Julius Malema who has nothing good to say about us Indians and classes and generalises all Indians, so it would be a wasted and puzzling vote.

A vote for the ANC would be a vote for the corrupt eThekwini Municipality. An Indian vote for the ANC would be crazy.

The party would continue handing over your jobs, land, housing, university spots, tenders and businesses to ANC pals, family and comrades.

If you are happy about seeing fewer Indians working in the rent offices, municipality offices, parks and gardens, libraries and Metro Police then your ANC vote makes you a sellout.

Ward 48, which is known as old Phoenix, and Wards 52, which are units 10,11, 12 and 13, are contested by two ANC candidates.

Why no Indian candidates in those Phoenix wards yet they want your Indian vote? It’s time for the Indians to say hamba to the ANC.

ROBIN NAIDOO

Phoenix

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2021-10-20T07:00:00.0000000Z

2021-10-20T07:00:00.0000000Z

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