Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader‚ Julius Malema says growing the party‚ not winning municipalities or positions‚ is what the party is focusing on.
He was speaking at the EFF’s gala dinner on Saturday‚ at Meropa Leisure and Entertainment in Polokwane‚ ahead of its Tshela Thupa rally on Sunday in Limpopo.
The rally will mark the party’s final day of campaigning ahead of the local elections on Wednesday.
“I don’t care whether we win a municipality or not‚ but we are going to increase our numbers. I’m not suffering from uncontrollable ambition for power‚” said Malema.
He said those who wanted to win municipalities at all costs were “shortsighted” and “myopic“.
Malema reminded the audience that the EFF was only three-years-old and people should not put pressure on it to win municipalities.
The EFF leader also said it was important to grow local economies and put land in the hands of its rightful owners.
“When we speak they think we want (SA) to be like Zimbabwe. We don’t want you to be like Zimbabwe‚ we want you to benefit from the land‚ there’s too much money to be made from this land‚” said Malema.
He added that the state should be funding and supporting black farm owners instead of giving them land that soon lay vacant and unused.
“That is setting black people up for failure ...You must sit with them‚ you must babysit them … for 10 years and then pull out after 10 years because you mentored those people‚” Malema said.
He said SA had the responsibility to ensure that patterns of property ownership changed.
Malema also spoke about nationalisation saying that he was not calling for a complete ban of the private sector but the economy should be led and owned by the state.
“We are not the enemy of business‚ we want to partner with business‚” he said.
Malema said sanitation services should not be outsourced but should rather be the responsibility of the municipality.
“You can’t privatise water‚ you can’t privatise a reading of meters... because the reality is that those are basic things that the municipality is doing. So once you privatise them‚ you’re going to pay more‚ because a job which can be done with R100m we end up doing it with R150m because R50m goes to this middleman called a tenderman‚” said Malema.
He said tenderpreneurs depended too much on government tenders and lacked the innovation needed to be true entrepreneurs.
The party has vowed that under its leadership‚ general tenders would come to an end in SA‚ and would only outsource scarce services.
Malema says he is ‘not suffering from uncontrollable ambition for power’
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader‚ Julius Malema says growing the party‚ not winning municipalities or positions‚ is what the party is focusing on.
He was speaking at the EFF’s gala dinner on Saturday‚ at Meropa Leisure and Entertainment in Polokwane‚ ahead of its Tshela Thupa rally on Sunday in Limpopo.
The rally will mark the party’s final day of campaigning ahead of the local elections on Wednesday.
“I don’t care whether we win a municipality or not‚ but we are going to increase our numbers. I’m not suffering from uncontrollable ambition for power‚” said Malema.
He said those who wanted to win municipalities at all costs were “shortsighted” and “myopic“.
Malema reminded the audience that the EFF was only three-years-old and people should not put pressure on it to win municipalities.
The EFF leader also said it was important to grow local economies and put land in the hands of its rightful owners.
“When we speak they think we want (SA) to be like Zimbabwe. We don’t want you to be like Zimbabwe‚ we want you to benefit from the land‚ there’s too much money to be made from this land‚” said Malema.
He added that the state should be funding and supporting black farm owners instead of giving them land that soon lay vacant and unused.
“That is setting black people up for failure ...You must sit with them‚ you must babysit them … for 10 years and then pull out after 10 years because you mentored those people‚” Malema said.
He said SA had the responsibility to ensure that patterns of property ownership changed.
Malema also spoke about nationalisation saying that he was not calling for a complete ban of the private sector but the economy should be led and owned by the state.
“We are not the enemy of business‚ we want to partner with business‚” he said.
Malema said sanitation services should not be outsourced but should rather be the responsibility of the municipality.
“You can’t privatise water‚ you can’t privatise a reading of meters... because the reality is that those are basic things that the municipality is doing. So once you privatise them‚ you’re going to pay more‚ because a job which can be done with R100m we end up doing it with R150m because R50m goes to this middleman called a tenderman‚” said Malema.
He said tenderpreneurs depended too much on government tenders and lacked the innovation needed to be true entrepreneurs.
The party has vowed that under its leadership‚ general tenders would come to an end in SA‚ and would only outsource scarce services.
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