The ANC Women's League presented its 60-day, nine-stop electioneering report to the party leadership on Monday.
Much more needs to be done to improve the lives of ordinary South Africans, women's league secretary general Sisisi Tolashe said at the presentation in Braamfontein, Johannesburg.
"When we hand over this report to the ANC we are telling them that we can't cheat our people anymore now.
"We have been to all nine provinces; people were bitter and angry. They said they voted for the ANC in 1999 and they did it again in 2004 'and we got away with murder'," Tolashe said.
During the campaign, the league went door-to-door, held imbizos and road shows and visited places the ANC had never been to before.
One particular area in Limpopo was especially troublesome, she said.
"The situation was very bad. There was a mentally sick couple who were living with their kids, raping each other on [a] daily basis, hence I say a lot still needs to be done."
She said in another area within the same province "people we thought were farmers turned out to be farming for someone else who comes in to take the money after they had worked".
"They were blaming the ANC and the government for their suffering. They were very angry and asked us why they should vote. We held discussions with them until we reached an agreement that they will go and vote for the ANC."
Tolashe said when they arrived in the Western Cape, taxi drivers were also very angry and bitter about the government's bus rapid transit system.
Our campaign was a success "They were threatening to strike on the 21 and 22 of April, so there would be nobody to take people to voting stations. They were very angry with the treatment they got from us."She said the league managed to calm them down and they agreed that they would not strike and would go and vote for the ANC.
"Our campaign was a great success. It's good that we went to these areas because sometimes we take it for granted that people will vote for the ANC anyway."
However, Tolashe said she was confident the ANC would garner 70 percent of the votes on Wednesday.
ANCWL president Angie Motshekga said their campaign had been a success. There were places they would go back to after the elections because of the "terrible situations" there.
"We picked up a lot of things during the campaign, we resolved some and there are things that need to be followed [up]."
Motshekga said they had to go back to the mentally ill couple, give them a "proper structure" to live in and arrange medical care, as promised.
Helen Zille "has gone berserk" She handed the report to ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe. He too proclaimed the league's campaign a success, before criticising the opposition's campaign.
"Their campaign was built around the president of the ANC going to court. Once the decision to drop the charges against Zuma was communicated they all went into disarray," he said.
Mantashe said DA leader Helen Zille "has gone berserk".
"You should've seen her in the SABC 2 political debate last night [Sunday]...she was asked what was the threat to the Constitution and her answer was 'it's Jacob Zuma'.
"They also asked her what were DA's economic policies and she responded by saying no economic policy would work while Zuma is president."
Mantashe's final words were "when Zille runs mad like that it works for the ANC".
"We don't talk about people, we talk about policies."
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