Gwede Mantashe denies his comments on RDP housing and social grants amount to vote-buying [SOUND]

# ANC national chairperson Gwede Mantashe has rejected assertions that his comments on RDP housing and the child support grant amount to vote-buying or emotional blackmail. During a door-to-door campaign in Freedom Park, Johannesburg, over the weekend, he pointed out that RDP housing and child support grants were direct results of ANC policies, arguing that voters should acknowledge and thank the ruling party for these interventions. Mantashe told Newzroom Afrika that the ANC does not buy votes; it serves the people: