AFRICAN GLOBE - May 3, 2016
The leader of South Africa’s opposition Economic Freedom Fighters
(EFF) movement has launched his party’s campaign for the upcoming local
elections, promising to rescue citizens from poverty, unemployment and
corrupt government.
Around 40,000 people turned up at Orlando
Stadium in Soweto on Saturday displaying massive support for fiery EFF
leader Julius Malema’s promises to reclaim African land from white
settlers without compensation and nationalise banks.
The huge
turnout was a shot across the bows of the ANC, which failed to fill a
similar stadium during the launch of its own manifesto in the coastal
city of East London two weeks ago.
“We are not chasing the whites
away. We are saying you have too much land. We want you here in South
Africa, but 80 percent of the land belongs to us,” Malema told the
crowd.
The white minority still holds the vast majority of
farmland as well as a disproportionate share of the country’s wealth,
and the EFF is capitalising on African discontent over the perceived
lack of change under the ANC government since the end of apartheid 22
years ago.
Malema’s Campaign Promises
Malema,
clad in the EFF’s signature red overalls and beret, made many promises
from free land, water and electricity for the poor to flushing toilets
in all homes as he campaigned ahead of municipal elections in August.
“We want Black communities to be like white communities,” he told the enthusiastic crowd.
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