EFF leader Julius Malema and prominent lawyer Dali Mpofu would be among the wealthy people an EFF government would target for a special wealth tax to subsidise indigent families.
Malema told hundreds of supporters gathered in Johannesburg on Sunday for the party's manifesto launch ahead of the November 1 local government elections that everyFF-governed municipality would implement a property wealth tax - a special tax where the wealthy would subsidise indigent families.
“We are going to tax them including myself. I stay in Sandton. I must pay the wealth tax to subside the poor. That is the only practical way to share the wealth of the country. He said the EFF had also observed that many people still stayed in shacks with no toilets, did not have electricity, access to quality primary health care, roads were not tarred, and those that were had potholes.
In his 92-minute speech, Malema cited specific service delivery concerns raised by different communities that the party consulted in drafting its promises.The people of Tshwane want the municipality to tar their roads in Extension 7 and 8 in ward 90, they want a clinic in Kopanong ward 89 and the people of Mbuyiseni Ndlozi informal settlement in ward 25 want electricity,” he said.
Every EFF municipality would have its own municipal land reform plan outlining municipal-based land reform targets. These targets would be aimed at resolving urban land hunger in urban and peri-urban municipalities and ensuring access to land for housing, urban agriculture, and black-led industrial activities. In rural municipalities, these targets would be focused on increasing agricultural production and providing land for housing.
EFF ward councillors would work with young people in the wards that they governed to initiate and grow at least one agricultural project, providing a source of income for young people in their respective wards.
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