The EFF has produced yet another ambitious document as its manifesto for this year’s local government elections, promising to root out corruption, redistribute land, and tax the wealthy to provide for the poor.
, and the other members of the top six leadership when he arrived to applause and ululation by supporters.
“We will do so with single-minded determination to ensure total victory for a socialist alternative that has long committed itself to the task of uplifting the lives of ordinary Africans,” he said. Open, accountable, corrupt-free government and society without fear of victimisation by state agencies. “We have fired corrupt mayors, municipal managers, directors; everyone who was involved in wrongdoing. When we take over, we are going to fire more and place municipalities in the hands of capable and qualified officials,” he said. The majority of the EFF’s manifesto centres around the land question. In it, the party pledges to carry out land audits to determine true land ownership, and expropriate abandoned and unused land for redistribution to landless people.
“Every EFF municipality will buy tractors and make them available for indigent households who want to farm, and will supply them with seeds and implements. Every EFF municipality will repossess all municipal stolen land,” he said. Speaking on Sunday, Malema again reiterated that property tax should be used to subsidise indigent families.
“EFF municipalities will ensure water sustainability for daily and industrial usage by building dams and large-scale water projects with the capacity to sustainably supply South Africa. EFF municipalities will provide each South African with in-house, hot, running water,” Malema said.within six months. Companies appointed will be expected to include night shift in [their] work schedule.
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