News24 | Young people who vote ANC are ‘neither stupid nor irrational’, says author

Author Malaika Mahlatsi during the dialogue about her book 'Why We Vote for the ANC' in East London on Wednesday evening. (ANC Eastern Cape/Facebook)

Author Malaika Mahlatsi during the dialogue about her book ‘Why We Vote for the ANC’ in East London on Wednesday evening. (ANC Eastern Cape/Facebook)

Social commentator, author and activist Malaika Mahlatsi says the stereotype that the youth who vote for the ANC, despite the party’s well-documented malfeasance, are “stupid and irrational”, is dangerous and wrong.

Mahlatsi was speaking in Buffalo Park, East London, on Wednesday during a dialogue on her latest book, titled ‘Why We Vote for the ANC’.

Mahlatsi described the ANC as an organisation with a “complicated legacy”.

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