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Poor will have free electricity and water under EFF

FED UP: A woman, who refused to be named, prepares a meal using a primus stove by candlelight during one of the nights Eskom rolled out load shedding in parts of Soweto. Many residents in the township accuse Eskom of overcharging them for direct electricity supply and yet they also reject prepaid metres PHOTO: Veli Nhlapo
FED UP: A woman, who refused to be named, prepares a meal using a primus stove by candlelight during one of the nights Eskom rolled out load shedding in parts of Soweto. Many residents in the township accuse Eskom of overcharging them for direct electricity supply and yet they also reject prepaid metres PHOTO: Veli Nhlapo

The poor will have free electricity and water under an EFF government‚ EFF leader Julius Malema says.

He told supporters at the launch of the party’s election manifesto for the coming local government elections on Saturday that every household would also have flushing toilets.

He said that the fact that white farmers all had electricity‚ water and flushing toilets while the rural communities around these farms had nothing showed that the ANC government did not care about the people.

Under an EFF government‚ Malema said‚ businesses would have to pay 40% of their profits to local municipalities.

He said the money would be used to uplift the local communities and the poor.

Moreover‚ 70% of business in any area would have to be conducted by locals. 

 

 

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