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Evita Bezuidenhout calls an
international press conference
MEDIA RELEASE: WEDNESDAY 8th OCTOBER 2008
The Most Famous White Woman in South Africa launches Evita's
People's Party at an international press conference at the CTICC in Cape Town at
10h00 on Friday 17th October, 2008.
Evita Bezuidenhout, the Most Famous White Woman in South
Africa, will launch Evita's People's Party on Friday 17th October at 10h00 at
the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC).
Evita will meet and greet the media and VIP guests over
koeksisters and coffee from 09h50 until 10h00 sharp. She will then elaborate
about Evita's People's Party and hand over the Party's registration documents to
Belinda Mbeleni, the Western Cape's Deputy Manager for Operational Matters of
the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC).
Evita
will then introduce her guests- Her Worship the Mayor of Cape Town Helen Zille,
ANC Spokesperson and NEC Member Jessie Duarte and the Leader of the Independent
Democrats Patricia de Lille who will each be granted an opportunity to comment
on these new developments.
There will be an opportunity for a Q&A session for the
media from 10h45 to 11h00. Any ladies and gentlemen of the media who would like
a brief interview with Mrs. Bezuidenhout, immediately thereafter, should please
contact Allison Foat at DIVA PR on 083 635 6312 to make the necessary
arrangements.
Please confirm your attendance at this event that will take
place at the CTICC, on the second floor, in Rooms 2.41 and 2.42. All local and
international media are welcome.
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L A U N C H O F E V I T A ' S P E O P
L E ' S P A R T Y
* Evita Bezuidenhout has announced the formation of a new political
party.
* EVITA'S PEOPLE'S PARTY will be registered with the IEC in the next few
days to fill the empty space left by infighting in the ruling African
National Congress.
* Evita Bezuidenhout says:
'The major focus today should be on the importance of voting in the next
election, on solving the problems of service delivery to people who have
been waiting since 1994, on health, education, housing, transport - and
not on who in the ANC is important. My question to them is: if you have a
collective leadership and
proportional representation, surely individuals don't count? Therefore
EVITA'S
PEOPLE'S PARTY will have me as leader and there will be no list. There
will be
people from all political persuasions who are committed to the protection
of
our Constituition, the enrichment of our youth and the celebration of our
diversity.
Mosiuoa Lekota has served the ANC with divorce papers. There is talk of
a National Democratic Convention in three weeks time to discuss the
housekeeping problems within the ANC. What has this got to do with a
subsiding economy, rising crime and violence, official corruption and
political
confusion? And yet all of this is good.
No political party inherits power as a right. They have to work for it
and be expected to answer to the people. The official opposition stands
for
transparency and accountability. The other political parties all are
committed to a free and fair election by the people of South Africa, to
decide who they want to represent them in a democratically-elected future
government. Not from lists. Not from an un-elected rabble of
struggle-tsotsis and
political pirates, but committed citizens who believe that the future of
South Africa does not lie in the hands of a few, but in the hearts of
many.
* EVITA'S PEOPLE'S PARTY has abided by all the rules of
registration and will submit itself to the IEC to be acknowledged as a
political
movement for voter education, the protection of constitutional rights, the
celebration of what is good and optimistic in our legacy and to underline
the urgency
for every South African citizen to use their vote in the 2009 Election to
protect our democracy. It's the only one we've got.
Let the people lead and the Government can follow (and Archbishop Desmond Tutu will now have a party to vote for!)
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