EFF to launch election manifesto on Sunday

Speaking ahead of the EFF’s election manifesto launch on Sunday, the party’s treasurer-general Omphile Maotwe appealed with South Africans to exercise their democratic right to remove the governing party.

“Our appeal is that EFF supporters, voters, believers, and everybody must come out in their numbers to vote. If they don’t, they must brace themselves for another five years of poor service delivery, or non-service at all. 

“So, it’s a choice between another five years of poor service delivery or you can change the status quo and vote,” said Maotwe.

She added: “It is not going to help us to keep crying and protesting - the time for change is now and change is only through the ballot.”

On funding for elections, Maotwe says the EFF doesn’t rely on private donors because they want to control party politics.

“Campaigning is very expensive, it doesn’t come cheap, but we have always known that it’s going to come. You know that our organisation does not get funded, I mean we have seen the DA getting funded by the Oppenheimer daughter (allegedly) for 15 million, something that the EFF doesn’t have. 

“So, we rely on our own people to fund our revolution because we believe the hand that feeds you controls you, so we don’t want to be controlled,” she said.

“We are having this state captures because the ruling party is controlled. We are taking these elections like any other, where we self-fund and our people understand that they have to volunteer services to the organisation.”