Hon Speaker, the ANC welcomes the six UCDP candidates in the Tlokwe Municipality who have recently joined the ANC, as well as seven members of Cope into its ranks. This is an indication that people realise that it is only the ANC that can provide a better life for all by ensuring and proving that we have reduced absolute poverty, expanded basic services to unprecedented levels and made our communities safer. [Interjections.]
This by-election in Tlokwe Municipality therefore represents another opportunity for our communities to use their power to vote for the ANC. This move will bolster the ANC's efforts to convincingly win the council back in the by-election which will be held in Tlokwe on Wednesday, 18 September 2013. The ANC is confident that it is the only party that can deliver a better life for all South Africans. We call upon our people to rally behind the ANC's vision of a united, nonracial, nonsexist, democratic and prosperous South Africa. I thank you. [Applause.]