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Zama
Ngema, who was told to move to the back of the hall where Deputy President
Cyril Ramaphosa was speaking. (Amanda Khoza, News24)
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When an ANC official told
Zama Ngema, 58, to move to the back of the Pietermaritzburg City Hall
because she was occupying a seat reserved for VIPS, she made sure to kick up a
fuss. "I
am also important, why must I sit at the back,” she said, adding that she had
borrowed R11 just so that she could see Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa
speak during his address on Tuesday.
Livid,
Ngema, from ward 19 in Mbali township, wiped away tears as she protested
the move.
She was
seated in the second row where she could get a clear view of Ramaphosa and was
one of about 1,500 people.
News24
report continues:
"They
told me that this row was reserved for members of the provincial and national
executive. I didn’t come here to sit at the back where I won’t be able to
see him. I have been in the ANC since I was in high school and now I am not
important.
"When
they need my vote, they think I am important. We are the ones who elected these
people, we are the ones that vote for them.
"I
am hurt," she said.
Ngema
made a point of sitting through the estimated hour address without budging.
Ramaphosa
was speaking at a Freedom Charter Forum at the Pietermaritzburg City Hall on
issues of the economy and Economic Freedom in Our Lifetime.
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