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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>President Cyril Ramaphosa raced around Cape Town on Saturday morning in whistle-stop visits to people living around the sewage and litter-filled streets of Philippi.<\/p>\n

His convoy nosed through load-shedding traffic with ease as police temporarily cordoned off intersections to let him pass.<\/p>\n

The first stop was the load shed Junxion Mall where shoppers walked around in the dark.<\/p>\n

In the same area on a field near a canal, people crowded around the president as he began his speech. A man carrying a piece of cardboard with the words “Corruption Ramaphosa” made his way to the front shouting: “Free speech, free speech”.<\/p>\n

Wiping the sweat off his face in the blazing heat while people chanted salutations to the leading party, Ramaphosa stepped forward to deliver a brief address.<\/p>\n

At the top of his agenda was gender-based violence, housing shortages, unemployment, gangsterism and “tsotsis”.<\/p>\n

He called for a summit of men to meet and find out why some abuse and kill women “[so that] we can talk among ourselves and get to the bottom of what makes men feel they are inclined to own women,” he said.<\/p>\n

He repeated this message at a formal sit-down lunch in Hanover Park, load shedding trailing him.<\/p>\n

Broaching the subject, he said that Eskom warned years ago that they needed money to fix, build and maintain the national power grid.<\/p>\n

“Now it is costing us double,” he said as the electricity at Voorspoed Primary School was reinstated.<\/p>\n

He did not stay to enjoy the curry with its strong aroma permeating the school’s main hall.<\/p>\n

The Pennsylvanian minstrel group blasted Meadowlands as he left. He only stopped briefly to pose for selfies with the crowd of people rallying to meet him.<\/p>\n

At the OR Tambo Community Hall in Khayelitsha, Ramaphosa danced on stage while the ANC Women’s League jubilantly sang for him.<\/p>\n

This was in sharp contrast to the sewer water-filled streets he had raced through, where shacks were built on pavements within inches of the damaged roads.<\/p>\n

Ramaphosa is on the ANC’s Letsema campaign to renew the party in the province.<\/p>\n

“Next time, the ANC is going to be running this province,” said Ramaphosa of his hopes for the next election.<\/p>\n

As he spoke in Khayelitsha, the electricity came back on again to loud cheers.<\/p>\n

He urged people to prepare themselves for the imminent ANC national conference, where around 3500 branches will elect new leadership.<\/p>\n

He blamed previous poor election performance in the Western Cape on branches choosing “fresh air”, but said the organisation has worked hard this time in the province.<\/p>\n

“The ANC cannot continue to lose elections in the Western Cape,” said Ramaphosa.<\/p>\n

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