IFP: Friday elections will impact turnout
The IFP is accusing the ANC of attempting to suppress voter turnout during this year's general elections.
While President Cyril Ramaphosa is yet to officially announce the date of the polls, his deputy, Paul Mashatile, let slip this weekend that South Africans will vote on 24 May.
It would see voting day being on a Friday instead of the usual Wednesday.
IFP national spokesperson Mkhuleko Hlengwa says casting ballots on a Friday would impact turnout, as many South Africans would treat it as a long weekend.
Speaking at a party pre-manifesto event in Durban CBD on Sunday, Hlengwa challenged the president to hold the elections on 29 May.
"Every time we have elections in South Africa, they take place on a Wednesday in order to maximise voter turnout. Therefore, we are warning the ANC from preventing people from going to elections. Elections on a Friday will not work."
Meanwhile, Ramaphosa and other senior ANC politicians have descended on KZN in the build-up to their party's manifesto launch at Durban's Moses Mabhida Stadium on Saturday.
The President is this afternoon due to visit the grave of John Langalibalele Dube in Inanda and lay a wreath.
Dube was the founding president of the South African Native National Congress, which later became the ANC.
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