Bread drive gets ANC toasted

ELECTION TACTICS: VIRAL VIDEO OF VOLUNTEERS HANDING OUT LOAVES FUELS RIDICULE, CRITICISM

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Just months before the local government elections, the ANC has been accused of being out of touch with the daily struggles of ordinary South Africans.

In the latest incident, the party has been seen giving out bread as part of its election campaign.

In a video circulating on social media, party volunteers can be seen with a tray of loaves of bread, handing them out to the community members.

One of the volunteers can be heard saying: "We are here from the ANC. One loaf, one family. ANC is life, so one loaf means a lot."

Her remarks were followed by applause from those who were at this event.

According to reports, the incident took place in Mpumalanga, but ANC provincial secretary Muzi Chirwa has denied it.

He said yesterday that the ANC would not normally embark on a campaign to hand out bread, instead they would hand out food parcels.

"I do not think this happened in our province," he said.

Chirwa said he had noted there are already people using this circulating video to mock the ANC and its president Cyril Ramaphosa.