The EFF launched its provincial manifesto in Soweto on Saturday. Image: SABC News
EFF expects decisive victory in Gauteng, nothing below 50%
EFF President, Julius Malema, says people know that their lives will change for the better if they voted EFF.
The EFF launched its provincial manifesto in Soweto on Saturday. Image: SABC News
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) held its provincial manifesto launch at the Dobsonville stadium in Soweto on Saturday and promised to win Gauteng in the May general elections.
According to The Citizen, during the keynote address the party’s president, Julius Malema, said the EFF has come together under a clarion call for “land and jobs now” and the “stopping load shedding.”
Malema said people knew that their lives were going to change for the better if they voted EFF.
WE’LL TAKE THE COUNTRY BACK FROM THE OPPENHEIMERS – MALEMA
“We are the only people gathered here with domestic workers, security guards, bus drivers, taxi drivers, and others called gardeners. They are part of this festival for people with low incomes. We are here in Gauteng, the home of the Sharpeville Massacre. We are here in Gauteng, the home of 16 June,” said Malema.
He said the EFF would take back the country from “a family called the Oppenheimers” whom he said were paying millions to buy South Africa. “Let us unite black people to fight against the Oppenheimer money. Let us not be bought by the Oppenheimers,” Malema said.
EFF HEAVYWEIGHTS NDLOZI AND MATHYS DEPLOYED IN GAUTENG
The party’s Provincial Chairperson, Nkululeko Dunga, said Gauteng will be under different leadership after the 29 May elections. The EFF obtained 634,000 votes in Gauteng in the last national elections in 2019.
It has deployed party heavyweights such as convener of elections Mbuyiseni Ndlozi and co-ordinator Leigh-Ann Mathys to the Gauteng province to bolster its chances of winning South Africa’s most economically viable province.
WE ARE OBSESSED WITH HAVING A DECISIVE VICTORY OF OVER 50% – SAYS EFF
“It is the EFF that will change things. It is the EFF that will create jobs, and it is the EFF that will stop load shedding,” Dunga said. He said the EFF will go into this year’s elections knowing that it started from nothing.
“We also go in knowing very well that we will be victorious with a decisive victory. So, we are not looking for anything below 50%; we have done fairly well in terms of outlining our election machinery and reinforcing it.”
“At this point, we’re not obsessed with that. We’re obsessed with having a decisive victory and winning over 50%, which would mean that we won’t require a coalition or engaging other parties,” Dunga said.
