Land, education, competency core to EFF governance when it happens
ALEXANDRA – Supporter adamant of a future for EFF's pro-poor policies.
The completion of the liberation struggle for total emancipation lies in the EFF, which party members say is the only representative of the poor.
Despite the election results favouring the ANC, EFF member Thomas Mahlatji, who voted at Three Square Sports Ground, is convinced that the party has the only clear policies on everything from poverty alleviation to empowerment and the restoration of dignity for the majority of the population.
Mahlatji said that this would be achieved through job creation in currently-disused factories in Marlboro, Kew and Lombardy, which should be revived; expropriation and distribution of land to the poor for productive purposes; and the nationalisation of the Reserve Bank from private control and profit motives by the private sector.
He was adamant that the EFF will, with time, prevail at the polls and through its voice in parliament after rigorous ongoing lobbying for land expropriation, which, he said, is the only foundation to restoring human dignity.
“People need the land to build their own houses, rather than depending on a government that built and distributed the houses to ineligible people after ensuring its party members had received their own.”
He said this created conflicts and fights rather than harmony and unity among residents of Alex, who the government had failed for years. “The EFF government-in-waiting has a plan on influx control and disorderly constructions to prevent shacks which are dehumanising and risky when constructed on the pavement.”
He said promises for free education under the Freedom Charter was now a fallacy. “The EFF will correct this by ensuring that students who are eligible for National Student Financial Aid Scheme scholarships are exempt from paying registration fees, which many can’t afford, resulting in their failure to enter varsity.”
He chided the current government’s failures, linking them with its ‘policy’ of cadre deployment, which distributes jobs, including executive positions, to unqualified people.
“Despite one’s political clout, education should be the key to one’s ability and capability to executing high-level responsibilities and prevent fraud and corruption. EFF policy guarantees that all positions in the public and parastatal sectors are advertised, that a candidate’s potential, education, and competency is assessed and that qualifying candidates are engaged regardless of political party affiliation.”
This, he said, is based on the party supporting the access to education for all, to reduce the dependency on grants.
Mahlatji vouched that his party would descend harshly on ministers and executives who betrayed the public trust. “They will receive 20-year sentences and their assets will be forfeited to repay back the public for their offences.”
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