Table of Content
1. Resolutions on Organisational Development 2. Resolutions on Economic Transformation for Economic Freedom in our Lifetime
3. Resolutions on Local Government and Local Government Elections 4. Resolutions of the First National People’s Assembly on Social Development 5. Resolutions of the First National People’s Assembly on Health and Education 6. Resolutions of Justices and Correctional Services 7. Resolutions of the First National People’s Assembly on Media and Battle of Ideas 8. Resolutions of the First National People’s Assembly on Land and Agrarian Resolutions 9. Resolutions of the First National People’s Assembly Fundraising
10. Resolutions of the First National People’s Assembly on International Relations and Solidarity
11. EFF Constitution as amended and adopted by the 1st National People’s Assembly
12. Declaration of the First National People’s Assembly 13. 1st NPA Closing Remarks by the President CIC Julius Sello Malema
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1. EFF Elected National Leadership_____
First National Assembly Elected Leadership
Top Six Officials
Deputy President: President and Commander in Chief: Floyd Nyiko Shivambu Julius Sello Malema
Secretary General: Deputy Secretary: Godrich Ahmed Gardee Hlengiwe Hlophe-Maxon
Treasurer: Magdeline Moonsammy National Chairperson: Dali Mpofu
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Elected additional CCT members
ADDITIONAL MEMBERS INCLUDING TOP SIX (FULL COMPLIMET CCT)
1. President and Commander in Chief : 20. Leighn-Ann Mathys Julius Sello Malema 21. Dumisani Ngcongwane 2. Deputy President: Floyd Nyiko 22. Dr Suzan Thembekwayo Shivambu 23. Vuyokazi Ketabahle 3. Secretary General: Godrich Ahmed 24. Vuyokazi Ketabahle Gardee 25. Mlungisi Rapolile 4. Deputy Secretary: Hlengiwe Hlophe- 26. Thembinkosi Rawula Maxon 27. Mathapelo Siwisa 5. Treasurer: Magdeline Moonsammy 28. Makhosini Mkhonza 6. National Chairperson: Dali Mpofu 29. Portia Malefane 7. Mbuyiseni Ndlozi 30. Thembi Msane 8. Shirley Mokgotho 31. Nazier Paulsen 9. Rodger Xalisa 32. Deisile Ngwenya 10. Nkagisang Mokgosi 33. Reneiloe Mashabela 11. Phumza Ntobongwane 34. Mabatho Mokause 12. Tseko Mafanya 35. Tebogo Mokwele 13. Ciliesta Motsepe 36. Jabavu Sebolai 14. Marshall Dlamini 37. Sam Matiase 15. Lerato Duba 38. Veronica Mente 16. Fana Mokoena 39. Lawrance Motsetela 17. Mbatha Sipho 40. Dr Younis Vawda 18. Natasha Louw 41. Dr Hlaiseka 19. Tilivhali Mulaudzi
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4. The organisation was able to recruit 527 343 members on record since its Organisational Development inception 26 July 2013-December 2014.This is not a Resolutions of the First National People’s Assembly on Organisational 5. Our membership data capturing Development system, card processing and card delivery procedure are not in good shape for they make people to stay long waiting for their cards. And this Noting that requires a prompt and 1. In less than two years since comprehensive intervention, so establishment EFF was able to do that the system must be seriously tremendous progress both in the overhauled which will bring public domain discourse and efficiency and reliable membership internally as an organisation faced system. with a task to build organisational capacity, which is an ongoing 6. Massive membership recruitment at process. branch level was done vigorously towards launching preparation of 2. The EFF contested 2014 National assemblies. However most of the Elections without launched membership forms were not availed structures nonetheless it was able to to the national audit team because reach each and every corner of branches wanted to quorate and to South Africa with its message of pass audit on basis of 100 members’ hope, economic freedom in our life status. Most branches with time, and had made inroads in all membership exceeding 300 only wards across the country. Without submitted 100 members in order to organisational capacity and strength reach the constitutional and to match the existing political guidelines requirements. formations and without resources and proven historical record in 7. Almost all branches were not governance and political leadership, inducted on the organisational the EFF partook in the 2014 general values after they launched and this elections and recorded what was impacted negatively on branches’ largely interpreted as success for a capacity and the ability to develop new political party their programme of action. This nearly opened a political vacuum to 3. EFF contested 2014 National anarchist and element of political Elections without sufficient opportunism. resources, however it was able to get 6, 25% of the national vote, which is 8. As Lenin noted that, “Without a translated into 25 seats in the strong organisation skilled in waging National Assembly. At the National political struggle under all Council of Provinces we have 6 circumstances and at all times, there seats and 30 seats combined in all can be no question of that Provincial Legislatures. systematic plan of action, illumined by firm principles and steadfastly
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carried out, which alone is worthy of 12. As we are heading towards 2016 the name of tactics”. local government election and 2019 take over it is imperative for EFF to 9. The 1st National People’s Assembly safeguarding EFF character and also completes the ongoing process values which is critical in current of democratisation of the Economic conjecture. Freedom Fighters as a revolutionary democratic movement and organisation fighting for leadership role of all economic freedom struggles in South Africa and the Therefore the 1st NPA resolves entire African continent. that: Democratic participation and 13. The Youth Command structure be involvement is vital for any included in the EFF constitution organisation to sustain itself and for and be established. the leadership to be held 14. The EFF Youth Command shall be accountable within the principles of the youth wing of the Economic the organisation. Democracy is vital Freedom Fighters which organises in that no single individual has the youth people under the banner of complete prescriptions of what Economic Freedom in our Lifetime should happen. and primarily guided by the EFF’s constitution, policies and resolutions. 10. The EFF’s achievement is however 15. The Youth Command shall be far below what majority of the autonomous, yet integral part of the members and leaders of the EFF EFF, in that it shall have its own anticipated, but largely reflected the constitution, programs, activities and amount of organisational and campaigns and be a legal persona political work done in various 16. The membership of the EFF Youth regions and provinces. Command shall be open to young people between the ages of 14 and 35. 17. Its main objective shall be to rally 11. The question of the quality of young people behind the vision of leadership at all levels of our economic freedom in our lifetime. Movement and its structures should 18. It must champion, defend and at the centre of any discussion on advocate for the rights, interest and building the organisation. This is aspirations of young people crucial in the sense that we cannot 19. It will serve as a political breeding have a strong, radical and militant ground for the young people of the activist movement that can ‘lead and EFF guide the struggle for economic 20. It shall organize the young freedom in our lifetime’ without a intelligentsia in the institutions of strong and quality leadership cores higher learning, professionals, at all levels. The leadership cores employed and unemployed youth in which is able to wear all storms and townships, villages, suburbs and continue to lead the struggle for informal settlements and, economic freedom in our lifetime. everywhere else where young people are found
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21. The CCT should develop process 29. We must sustain the EFF birthday for this structure to be established. and continuously use it to campaign and to popularise 26 July 22. Resolve on the Women’s Revolutionary movement within our Command situation as we mobilise the broader society. 30. The 1st NPA resolved that in our campaigns there must be visibility of 23. The Women’s Command structure EFF t-shirts, however, that would be included in the EFF constitution be determined by the availability of and be established. resources. 31. Branch, regional and provincial 24. The EFF Women Command shall organisers should capacitated with be the women’s wing of the the organising and campaigning Economic Freedom Fighters which skills. organises women under the banner of Economic Freedom in our IDEOLOGICAL TRAINING Lifetime and primarily guided by the AND POLITICAL EFF’s constitution, policies and EDUCATION resolutions. 32. The First National Assembly has resolved that political education and 25. The Women’s Command shall be ideology training should be given a autonomous, yet integral part of the priority and be castigated from EFF, in that it shall have its own branches up to CCT level. constitution, programs, activities and campaigns and be a legal persona. 33. Cadre development programme for fighters, should be done 26. Every woman who is 18 years and systematically, with a core focus on above can be a member of the our ideologically orientation as Women’s Command. prescribed in the Founding Manifesto, Constitution, 27. Its main objective is to raise the organisational human capital political consciousness of women development and capacity building. into understanding that patriarchy is a societal ill and to this end must 34. Extensive branch induction to be organize and mobilize women done continuously to elected and the collectively with men if needs be, general membership. into ending patriarchy by putting the patriarchal, white-supremacist, 35. Political Schools to be held capitalist oppression of women to continually at all levels including all an end. legislature and parliamentary caucus.
28. Moreover the purpose of the 36. Technology to be used effectively, Women’s Command is to promote so to enhance political and the rights of women and in this ideological work. regard to remove all impediments to
their development as full and equal 37. The Founding Manifesto to be members of society. translated into all South African languages. On Organising Page 6 of 64 Economic Freedom Fighters 1ST National People’s Assembly Resolutions: People’s Power for Economic Freedom
40. The First National People’s 38. The Founding Manifesto to be Assembly has further resolved that developed into Audio format. the membership fee be retained at R10. 41. The EFF membership system must be upgraded for it to be efficient and Sub Regions professional 42. EFF should engage on an extensive 39. . Sub regions are a very important membership recruitment campaign. component as it pertains to 43. Membership that was not submitted coordination of collective of during branch audit to be submitted activities branches and campaigns. and be captured. i. The sub region is not 44. Members to be inducted about the constitutional member’s oath as adopted in structure; however amended constitution. they assist in coordinating campaigns. ii. The Sub-region will Constitutional amendments: be established on the MEMBERSHIP basis of clustering 45. Recommendations by members to branches. join—this section should be
iii. Each branch will removed. send one person to 46. INCLUSION--Membership Oath be a representative to be included under membership in the sub-region the constitution: “I fighter……… coordinating solemnly declare that I will abide by committee. The the aims, objectives and radical branch policies of the Economic Freedom representatives will Fighters as set out in the elect a coordinator Constitution of the EFF. I and convener and voluntarily join the EFF without any the rest will form motive of personal gain or material part of the sub- benefit, and understand that I am regional coordinating not entitled to any positions or team. deployments. I will participate in the
iv. The CCT should life of the Economic Freedom develop process for Fighters to strive towards total the sub-region emancipation of South Africa, coordinating Africa and the oppressed of the structure to be world and will do so as a loyal, established. active and disciplined Economic
v. The structures that Freedom Fighter. have constitutional executive powers is BCT, RCT, RCT, PCT and CCT 47. I further declare to defend the proud and militant legacy of the fallen Membership heroines and heroes. To work Page 7 of 64 Economic Freedom Fighters 1ST National People’s Assembly Resolutions: People’s Power for Economic Freedom
towards a South Africa that belongs 90% of these shall be from to all who live in it. Defend the branches of the EFF. African revolutionary tradition 53. SECTION 13: CCT against all forms of tendencies that a. (1) (d), The Deputy Secretary promote hatred, division, general and Treasure underdevelopment, corruption and General, who shall be a social discords. I vow to defend and fulltime officials of the EFF selflessly pursue the realisation of based at its Headquarters, the seven non-negotiable cardinal unless decided otherwise by pillars as a primary political program the CCT. of the EFF contained in the 54. Responsibilities of Command Founding Manifesto. Structures: a. The responsibilities and 48. I further commit to abide by the duties of all Command principle of democratic centralism structures should be clearly which is that the individual is stated in the constitution. subordinate to the organisation, the b. Should include a provision minority is subordinate to the that says that members who majority, the lower level is miss 3 meetings in sequence subordinate to the higher level, and without sound apologies decisions of the upper structures are shall be removed from the binding on the lower structures.” Command Teams. c. No member of the EFF 49. Rights of members: shall be allowed to occupy a. To participate in meetings two organisational positions and all other activities at the same time. Once organised by the EFF, unless elected to the other decided otherwise by structure, the member is constitutional structures of automatically no longer a the EFF. member of the structure 50. Eff structures terms of office they served before, and a. BCT – 2 years General Assembly shall be b. RCT – 3 Years the only platform to replace c. PCT – 4 years the vacated position. d. CCT – 5 Years 55. MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL: e. Branches of the EFF shall a. The CCT shall put in place be ward-based, but can be efficient mechanisms on recognised in demarcations membership systems and decided by the CCT. membership renewal. 56. REGIONAL AND 51. 10: RCT and PCT shall compose PROVINCIAL CO- of : RDINATING Command a. 10 (ten) additional members a. RCT shall have a Regional for the RCT: Co-ordinating Command b. 16 (sixteen) additional which shall be the Top 5 members for the PCT plus 3 Members of the RCT. 52. National People’s Assembly b. The PCT shall have a a. The NPA shall be Provincial Coordinating constituted of delegates, and Command which shall be
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composed of the Top 5 plus 6 Members of the PCT. 57. THE WOMEN’S COMMAND a. Joining shall be Age 18 years
and above. 58. EFF student command a. The Student Command shall be established as an Economic Transformation______autonomous structure existing in all institutions of Resolutions of the First National higher learning and post- People’s Assembly on Economic secondary education and Transformation for Economic Freedom in training institutions. our Lifetime
59. Organisational principles: a. (3) The entire organisation is accountable to the National People’s Assembly. Believing that: patterns of development and underdevelopment in our society. 1. The Economic Freedom Fighters 6. Minerals are at the strategic centre Founding Manifesto remains the of South Africa’s economic, political fundamental political and ideological and social development. programme on how the organisation 7. The central and most pressing approaches and deals with matters challenges we face are of economic transformation and unemployment, poverty, under- socialist revolution. employment and inequality. 2. A thorough implementation of the 8. Corporatives Founding Manifesto cardinal and complementary pillars will require that the EFF captures political Noting that: power, the state and transforms or revolutionises the economy for the 1. South Africa continues to export a benefit of all. substantial majority of its mineral 3. Even prior to capture of political resources with little or no efforts for power, the EFF will utilise all the beneficiation and industrialisation of platforms it occupies to advocate for the mineral resources. the implementation of a radical 2. Legislation that govern minerals in economic transformation South Africa, particularly the programme. Minerals and Petroleum Resources 4. The current domestic and global Development Act, which balance of forces are not hostile to a acknowledges that: radical economic transformation a. minerals are non-renewable programme and revolution in the resources and they belong to same manner they were hostile when the nation with the state as South Africa made a political the custodian transition from apartheid to the post b. there is an obligation to 1994 political system. ensure their sustainable 5. The legacy of colonialism and development and to protect apartheid continues to reproduce the the environment Page 9 of 64 Economic Freedom Fighters 1ST National People’s Assembly Resolutions: People’s Power for Economic Freedom
c. results of past discrimination 1. Work with progressive forces to should be redressed through, organise and mobilise employed and amongst others, equitable unemployed young workers around access and promotion of their immediate and long-term local and rural development objective interests. 3. The history of oppression premised 2. Work with the progressive middle on the extraction of minerals in class, especially young professionals, South Africa. to ensure that their aspirations are 4. That the willing buyer willing seller aligned with those of the majority of principle has not yielded the the youth. envisaged results and remains 3. Mobilise non-monopoly capital, unfeasible to deliver the urgent which continues to suffer from restitution and redistribution domination by big capital, to required by the majority of South advance the national productive Africans. forces and to transform the colonial industrial structure. Further nothing that: 4. Mobilise society in general around the program of Economic Freedom 1. Attempts to pursue a radical in our Lifetime and its 7 cardinal economic transformation pillars. programme in the liberation movement are always met with hostility and those pursuing such a programme banished and isolated as nonentities. 2. The relatively progressive trade On building capacity to drive the union movement holds the similar revolutionary programme: views as the EFF on radical economic transformation, yet still 1. The state should provide leadership locked in the belief that the current in ensuring good quality education government is the vehicle for such a for both young and old South programme. Africans. At the centre of this should be education that is biased Therefore resolve: towards the industrialisation ideals of the EFF. To this end, the EFF 1. To re-affirm the EFF Founding advocates that our national Manifesto as a primary political education curriculum should be 40% programme and our strategic guide theory and 60% practical. on the question of economic 2. In a country so fixated with formal transformation and socialist qualifications, the EFF should move revolution. to compel all companies to train 2. To adopt the Jobs for All formally all their workers, Perspective as an official policy particularly those who are skilled but position of the EFF. with no formal education.
3. EFF branches must be at the On Marshalling the Motive Forces forefront of building community behind Our Programme: awareness and consciousness on issues in relation to the economy
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and sustainable development at large. On Changing the Structure of the 4. Branch Command Team must be Economy: enabled to conduct education campaigns aimed at economically 1. Demand that no less than 60% of all freeing our people from the shackles minerals extracted within the of white monopoly capital. country be beneficiated within the borders of South Africa with a clear On Changing Patterns of Ownership and deliberate bias to surrounding and Control: mining communities. 2. Build capital equipment sector. 1. Amend section 25 of the 3. Establish benchmarks for local Constitution of the Republic of content/materials in the wholesale South Africa to make provision for and retail trade sector. the expropriation without 4. Review trade policies for compensation of property, industrialisation. particularly land, for equitable 5. Encourage innovation in the Energy redistribution in the public interest and water sectors. and for public purpose. 6. Engage the Competition 2. Nationalisation of strategic sectors Commission to revise upward and the commanding heights of the penalties that are levied against economy to realise the Freedom companies found guilty of price Charter’s clarion call that the people fixing and collusion. shall share in the country’s wealth. 7. Demand that the South African As per the dictates of the Freedom government desists from renting Charter such strategic sectors must buildings for state accommodation include “the mineral wealth beneath purposes but rather construct the soil, the Banks and monopoly and/or own all buildings where it is industry”. The state must also have accommodated. greater ownership and control of natural monopolies e.g. SASOL, Arcelor-Mittal, the Cement Industry On deconstructing the Minerals Energy etc. Complex: 3. Call for the establishment of a State 1. Agitate and develop a coherent and construction company to reduce the cogent programme of over-reliance on tenders and the use deconstructing the concentration of of consultants in the delivery of the South African economy on the socio-economic infrastructure. Minerals Energy Complex. 4. Demand the establishment of a State 2. Deconstruction of the MEC entails Bank. economic diversification through 5. Greater state intervention, industrial development in other ownership and control of the sectors, than in the minerals and Reserve Bank given its strategic role energy sectors. This is important to in our economy. highlight because if such had 6. Review the BEE policies to ensure happened post 1994 in a that they are in line with the BBBEE thoroughgoing industrial Act to urgently address the development process which includes challenges of unemployment, state leadership and participation of underdevelopment particularly all South Africans, liberals would be amongst young people. Page 11 of 64 Economic Freedom Fighters 1ST National People’s Assembly Resolutions: People’s Power for Economic Freedom
justified to argue that race no longer unemployment problem lies in the structures economic advantage and structure of the economy that is disadvantage. value adding. 3. Linked to the above, demand that 4. In the short term, lead a programme the South African government to expose lack of implementation of should criminalise transfer pricing, the provisions of the Minerals and base erosion and profit shifting. Petroleum Resources Development Act that compels companies to On socialisation of the South African beneficiate minerals in the country. economy: 1. The South African economy is EFF’s alternative economic Policy: controlled by white monopoly capital, and a coherent programme 1. Growth through Redistribution: of action towards ensuring that a Growth through redistribution socially responsive economic order requires the redistribution of wealth is attained. as a pre-condition for economic 2. To do the above, the EFF should growth to occur. Such a strategy establish frameworks for the begins with the state taking control socialisation of each of the industrial of the productive and financial sectors in the country. resources of the country and 3. Review the BEE framework and redirecting them towards housing, expose its limitations and failure to feeding, clothing and educating our deconstruct the apartheid and people. Overcoming poverty and colonial economic structure in the inequality is the means for creating a country. sustainable productive base for our economy. This can be done through: On unemployment: 1. In the short term, while not in 2. Inward oriented industrial political power, the EFF should strategy: Production of basic needs engage the government to pass in terms of durable and non-durable legislation that will ensure the goods as well as social programmes protection of infant industries of education, health, environmental against external competition to repair, transport, housing, encourage local entrepreneurship infrastructure and communication and creation of millions of jobs. lie at the base of an alternative 2. Engage the department of development strategy. agriculture and trade and industry to legislate that the state should 3. Diversify our economy: To satisfy procure all its food consumables these needs we need to diversify the from smallholder farmers. This will economy away from the production secure critical jobs and livelihoods of raw materials and heavy derived from agriculture. industrialised goods. We need to use 3. Agitate for a comprehensive, state our mineral wealth as a platform to led intervention in the agro- produce light intermediate capital processing sector, the entire goods such as machinery and other agriculture value chain and the equipment necessary in the textile industry. The long term production of finished goods. solution to the country’s Page 12 of 64 Economic Freedom Fighters 1ST National People’s Assembly Resolutions: People’s Power for Economic Freedom
1. Introduce national reconstruction service: Urgent 5. Different Trade Policy: This measures are needed to combat cannot be achieved within a “free youth unemployment. As part of trade” framework currently policed marking the anniversary of the by the WTO. To ensure the space to 1976 youth uprising, our meet our people’s needs through the government must introduce a production of local goods and compulsory national services we need to be able to reconstruction service for 18 support our industries especially year olds who would be new, vulnerable and strategically conscripted into a national important ones. These must be service for one year into protected from international programme for reconstruction, competition and allow us to ensure where skills will be gained in decent work and a living wage. This agriculture, construction, means we must not only resist the conservation, education, health WTO free trade agenda but fight for and a host of other work a different framework for regulating experiences and for which a trade internationally, i.e. based on basic income will be provided. equality and solidarity.
2. Expand the EPWP: In order to 6. Consider Dual Currency: In a meet the immediate needs of globalised economic framework, more than 8 million people for sustainable monetary and fiscal work, the EPWP must be framework and reality are a sin qua reorganised and expanded to non. Depending on sectoral and provide a million jobs annually sometimes immediate interests, trade at a living wage for at least one unions in South Africa have been year. The practice of using the making calls. EPWP as a means of creating a black bourgeoisie by outsourcing public sector activities like road 7. Integrate our region and promote construction to private regional solidarity: An alternative companies must be stopped. economic development strategy that The EPWP must be directed guarantees decent work, a living towards expanding the public wage, full employment and the end sector. to inequality and poverty will be
achieved not at the expense and domination of our region and 3. Developing Skills and continent but through co-operation Providing Apprenticeships: and an integration based on While it is not true that poor solidarity. Our region is rich in skills explains South Africa's natural resources and human capital. unemployment crisis, decent education and skills Addressing the immediate needs of the development are important for poor and unemployed: young people in finding decent work and in contributing to the
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our country. This will require clothing and other consumer plumbers, electricians, engineers, goods leading to further carpenters and other skilled economic expansion and faster workers. We demand the job creation. The same logic development of the applies with the development of apprenticeship system whereby a decent public transport system. young people have the As opposed to elite projects like opportunity to develop skills and the Gautrain, fast national rail knowledge, gain qualifications systems should be developed to and earn money at the same transport people and goods time. across the country. An effective public transport system would ease the burden on our roads, 4. Fill all posts in the public drastically reduce the death and sector: Presently hundreds of carnage on our roads and thousands of jobs in the public overcome current high levels of sector are frozen. Millions of carbon-dioxide pollution. unemployed could be in work if these positions were filled and the scandalous rollover of 6. Introduce Prescribed Assets: unspent monies would be Government must direct the overcome. As a result public huge assets of all financial sector capacity would be services towards investment in enhanced, services improved the productive sectors of the and needs met. economy, especially those sectors that have high employment multipliers. The 5. Increase Public Sector financial services industries shall Investment: Presently public by law required to invest no less sector investment lags way than 10% of their asset base in a behind what is needed in spite of government fund dedicated government increases in towards social investment and infrastructure investment. If jobs job creation. are to be created at a scale needed to absorb new entrants to the job market much greater 7. Cut interest rates and state resources need to be spent. abandon inflation targeting: Sustainable jobs can be created if High interest rates cut off job government undertook, amongst creation by attracting money other projects, a massive into the speculative sectors of housing programme as proposed the economy rather than the in the RDP. Investing in housing productive sectors where jobs would have the virtue of are created. Reducing interest stimulating downstream rates would lead to greater job industries leading to more jobs creation and make it easier for in construction, furniture, firms to access credit to expand appliances, etc. With more their businesses. This would working people employed at a require the abandonment of living wage greater demand inflation targeting which can would be created for food, only be maintained through Page 14 of 64 Economic Freedom Fighters 1ST National People’s Assembly Resolutions: People’s Power for Economic Freedom
interest rate increases. Higher increasing tariffs and by providing levels of inflation pose no threat support in the form of subsidies and to jobs and consumers, other incentives. especially if more and more 4. Vigorously oppose in the World Trade people have decent work. Price Organisation, GATS and the Non- control on basic goods Agricultural Market Access Agreement foodstuffs and rent would be (NAMA) that aims to dramatically put in place to protect the poor. reduce tariffs in all industries outside of agriculture. Our government must oppose similar trade agreements 8. Encourage labour intensive whether they be in the form of bilateral, production: Thousands of regional or multilateral agreements. No additional jobs could be created trade agreement should be signed if labour intensive industries without prior employment and equity were targeted for growth and impact studies and far-reaching protected from international consultations with the labour movement competition along with the and other organisations of the popular removal of tax incentives movement having been undertaken. promoting capital intensive 5. All sectors of the economy must be expenditures. These include encouraged to source their goods and agriculture, agro-processing, services either nationally or within the furniture, wood and paper, SADC region to expand demand and accommodation and transport protect jobs. and community servicing. By targeting these sectors through various incentives and Creating jobs from non-conventional protections large number of new sectors of the economy: jobs can be created in these sectors as well as creating jobs 1. Produce our electricity from wind throughout the economy. and solar power. With a target of producing 50% of electricity with renewable energy in 10 years we will Protecting existing jobs: create 150,000 jobs and reduce our emissions by 20%. 1. Government imposing a moratorium on retrenchments. The first step in this 2. Invest in the maintenance of the direction would be for government to country’s ecological implement new labour regulations infrastructure: The country is requiring that the bosses must negotiate blessed with one of the world’s with the workers any and all richest natural environment. The retrenchments. Currently they only need biodiversity of the Cape floristic to consult the trade unions. region alone is richer than the entire 2. Similarly an immediate moratorium on biodiversity richness of Australia. farm evictions must be implemented The provision of water and food, otherwise hundreds of thousands of and climate change adaptation is people will be pushed off the land and dependent on the sustenance of this made destitute. Evicted farm workers resource. If the state can invest in must be reinstated or compensated. the maintenance of the country’s 3. Protect vulnerable and strategic ecological infrastructure, we can industries from cheap imports by create a million, long term jobs for Page 15 of 64 Economic Freedom Fighters 1ST National People’s Assembly Resolutions: People’s Power for Economic Freedom
our people. alone, it is possible to create nearly 3. Reduce energy use through 500,000 new jobs in local food energy efficiency in industries. If production in urban areas. we implemented a 20% energy efficiency target by 2025, at least 7. Protect our water, soil and 27,000 new jobs would be created. biodiversity resources. Up to 4. Reduce energy use in homes and 400,000 jobs can be created if buildings by constructing new ecosystem restoration projects are buildings to be energy efficient and increased. Ecosystem restoration has retrofitting existing buildings. Just by a range of benefits, including retrofitting old buildings and houses, improving water quality, improving we could create 120,000 jobs. carrying capacity for wildlife and 5. Expand public transport. Reduce livestock, conservation of topsoil, our use of oil in transport by and recharging groundwater. improving and expanding our public 8. Move to zero waste. If we adopt transport system. A commitment to zero waste principles, we can create shift just 10% of private car at least 400,000 jobs in the current
commuters to public transport, economy, and reduce our CO2- would create about 70,000 jobs and equivalent emissions by about 35 reduce emissions by 24 million tons Million Tons. Zero waste is a cheap
of carbon dioxide (CO2). There is and effective strategy to combat potential for even greater job climate change. creation and emissions cuts if we 9. The Marine Economy: To further commit to more ambitious targets expand our economy, a and actions. Overall, our proposals comprehensive understanding of the for expanding public transport marine economy must be sought. At would result in the creation of the centre of this would be the 460,000 new jobs. development of our ports and shipping industry to be socially 6. Produce our food through responsive and not continue being organic small-scale agro ecology. exploited for minority white Small-scale family farmers and monopoly benefit. EFF must lead in peasants use farming techniques that the evolving debate on the blue protect natural resources, are more economy and the potential that this labour intensive and more has on growing our economy and productive per hectare. In Gauteng providing jobs.
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Local Government______Resolutions of the First National People’s Assembly on Local Government and Local Government Elections
Noting that: 2. SALGA and other structures lack capacity and have no response on 1. The EFF does not control any how to strengthen municipalities. municipality. 3. Municipalities perpetuate the racial 2. The current state of local and income divisions created by government is inefficient and apartheid that keep that majority of incompetent. Africans living in poverty. 3. The culture of public participation in 4. Municipalities are not contributing governance does not exist and the to the economic development of the voice of the people is only heard people, especially Africans, and are when the community embarks on also to blame for the lack of transfer service protest. of land to Africans. 4. Municipalities remain weak and 5. People are losing faith that the unable to deliver on their mandates. system of governance, especially 5. Municipalities are riddled with local government can change their corruption, nepotism and lives and consistently deliver basic mismanagement. services. 6. Local government elections attract approximately 40% of registered This National People’s Assembly voters. resolves: 7. Registration on voters roll by eligible and participation is not high, 1. Return power to the people in especially amongst the 18 – 19 year local governance sphere by: age group. - Involving them in the policy 8. Majority of local government formulation process of the EFF municipalities across the country are perspective on local government selling huge portions of land to - Purposefully seeking their private developers. participation and input in 9. There is a lack of coordination planning and accountability between three of spheres process of Local and District government in both policy and municipalities implementation. - Ensuring EFF members participate in Ward Committees Believing that: and advance the priorities of the communities 1. Corruption, nepotism and - The incoming CCT should draft mismanagement can only be rid and canvass a policy perspective from municipalities when on the role of the institution of communities have no tolerance for traditional leadership and local them. government in ensuring
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economic freedom for - Abolish all outdated communities by the next NPA municipalities ordinance and by- laws that impede service delivery - The EPWP should be localised and EPWP programme should 2. Strengthen capacity in employ people on fulltime municipalities by: - Local state should expropriate land within its boundaries and - Ensuring massive community distributed it freely to people participation in selection of EFF who needs it for residential councillors purposes - Pushing for the abolishment of - Local government municipalities Provincial governments to should not sell land to foreigners cascade those resources to - Informal settlements should be municipalities eradicated by 2021 - Ensure that government - Redraw the current municipality planning is a bottom-up boundaries to be in line with approach whereby national people’s development not departments draw their policies electioneering like as it stand from municipalities not impose now policies - New cities should be established - Push for the Nationalisation of across the country in particular services such as water and in rural areas electricity and to have them - Tendering must be abolished in managed at local level the local state - Reformulate funding structure to - Municipalities should establish municipalities as it currently roads maintenance and housing gives more to municipalities that companies to do all roads and already get more and are able to housing infrastructure sustain themselves better - Municipalities should build - Ensuring representation of all spacious houses and the building government departments at local of these houses must not be government level especially outsourced to the private sector those that are working on - Municipalities should employ economic development people who are qualified with - Investing in human capital merits not based on political especially areas such as engineers affiliation - Focus on reengineering of urban development, spatial Local Government Election development and spatial justice - Review the role and working of 3. We further resolve that The EFF SALGA so it is effective in has to strengthen and mobilise strengthening of the local around its election machinery by: governments - At local government sphere no - All BCT, RCT and PCT are municipality should use labour converted into Election brokers. People employed by the machinery by July 2015 local state must employed on permanent basis. Page 18 of 64 Economic Freedom Fighters 1ST National People’s Assembly Resolutions: People’s Power for Economic Freedom
- All wards determined and - Each ward, not later than June demarcated are contested by 2015, shall identify and submit EFF not less than 1,000 registered - All wards established must have voters who have been visited launched EFF BCTs by June and agreed to vote EFF in the 2015 2016 LGE. - Appointment and training of - Each ward must identify 3 key Party Agents and Party Liaison priorities affecting their ward officers on elections are that EFF should campaign on completed by July 2015 - The Nomination of the EFF - Ensure that all BCTs undergo ward councillor and PR political education on the EFF candidates shall be nominated in Founding Manifesto beginning consultation with communities June 2015 - CCT should develop attributes - Submitting all proposed and qualities of ward councils, legislative and procedural EFF aspires to have changes such as the issue of - The CCT should develop EFF results slips to the IEC by 15 ward and PR councillors January 2015 nomination process guidelines - Each BCT shall hold periodic and the attributes of the EFF community meetings and local government representatives community consultations by by May 2015 February 2015 - Each branch must be furnished - CCT should develop with 2014 national election mobilisation strategy to capture status quo report by March young people who didn’t vote 2015 during 2014 election - Draft Municipal Election Strategies should be ready not later than March 2015
Social Development______Resolutions of the First National People’s Assembly on Social Development Noting that: Page 19 of 64 Economic Freedom Fighters 1ST National People’s Assembly Resolutions: People’s Power for Economic Freedom
1. Economic transformation and 4. South African economy cannot therefore social transformation has sustain pay out of social grants over not taken place in South Africa at a period of 10 years from now. all. 5. South Africa is further continuing to 2. South Africa misconstrued be a welfare state. development as simply meaning the 6. South Africa is gradually provision of services such as houses, experiencing a moral decay; and social grants, education and 7. The ruling ANC uses state agencies healthcare. like SAPS to advance their party 3. South Africa has the highest political interests. unemployment rate in relation to its BRICS counterparts with youth and While believing that: women being the victims. 1. Transformation is profound, 4. South Africa has the highest poverty fundamental change, altering the and vulnerability at 0,69 Gini- very nature of something. Coefficieny and again youth and Transformational change is both women are the victims. radical and sustainable. Something 5. In South Africa majority of blacks that is transformed can never go and rural poor children are out of back to exactly what it was before. Early Childhood Development 2. State capacity must be strengthened program. to ensure policy implementation 6. In South Africa there is a rapid 3. The social welfare aspects are vital in increase in drugs and substance South Africa, they do not constitute abuse among young people, with the the core development realised by all latest being Nyaope. industrialised and developed nations 7. In South Africa majority of in the world. households are headed by children 4. It is the role of the state working and women. together with the societies to reduce 8. The child support grant constitute poverty and vulnerability levels over 60% of the total pay-out of the among the society. social grants. 5. There must be equality before the 9. South African social crime levels are law. sky rocketing; and 6. The current social grants creates a 10. In South Africa, 20 years later our culture of dependency, however, elderly people, people living with they remain the main source of disabilities and orphan children still income in many households; and remain the most vulnerable group in 7. The social development activities are the society. by its very nature transversal and Further noting that: therefore cut across all sectorial departments. 1. South African justice system has over 20 years failed South Africa poor and women in particular. Therefore resolved to recommend that: 2. South Africa has a gender policy that 1. The EFF approach to social has never been implemented. transformation and social 3. The state of democracy is in reversal development be the Socialist Human and citizenship at its lowest. Development Approach. The principles of this approach are that
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all human beings and their wellbeing and concerted program to fight all is central in all policies. It also social ills. ensures socialism from below, 9. Making justice system a social different from socialism led by the function accessible to all by elite. establishing and regulating the 2. The South African state must be establishment of the magistrate developmental in a sense that it courts per municipality. structure and manage its 10. Criminalising the usage of state administration, budgeting and agencies to victimise, harass or kill planning process to give priority to members of the population whether the basic needs of the community, privately or publicly in protest, and to promote the socio economic strikes or organised marches. development of the community. 11. Transform the legal system into a 3. The state through its legislative and true Afrocentric social function by other measures must support and introducing all nine African strengthen the capacity of its organs languages into the written code of and foster intergovernmental law, thereby doing away with relations. interpreters and for the first time, 4. A thorough research be conducted enabling Africans to access the law on the psychological nature of the within their context. poverty experienced in South Africa 12. Establish equality before the law by by in the incoming CCT to further abolishing the bail system and influence EFF policy. allowing all accused to await at 5. The national protected home, or at state places of safety, industrialisation program must be where applicable; and linked with the national indigent 13. The state to provide mechanisms to register with a view to create more protect all the vulnerable groups by jobs and exit those in the social providing houses, education, grant database. healthcare and any other form of 6. Doors of learning and teaching must support and protection their be opened particularly to skill and vulnerability. reskill the youth, women and above all the beneficiaries of child support On Teen Pregnancy the following are grants as an exit strategy in the long some of the proposals: term. 7. The establishment of massive • Statutory rape shall carry a criminal protected industrial development to record for adult offenders having create millions of sustainable jobs, sex with children as they are entered including the introduction of into paedophile registry minimum wages in order to close • Young people suspected of engaging the wage gap between the rich and in sexual activity can be referred to the poor. social worker who will then through 8. The state must develop a moral parents refer them to rehab centres revival strategy to restore the where they will attend counselling African moral fibre torn apart by the on a regular basis until they are no imperialists and colonial masters longer at risk of sex since the arrival of the boers in the • Legal age of consent to sex as well South, this also include the cogent as to marriage shall be increased to 18
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• Teen mothers shall not get cash for On Poverty: their child support grant, instead they will get vouchers for food and • As per the EFF Manifesto, transfers clothes, this is a measure to decrease by the State to the vulnerable shall the number of young women falling be double to what they are now pregnant due to wanting a cash • Minimum wages will be increased social grant across all sectors and set per sector • Teachers found to be having sex to eliminate worker poverty with pupils shall be fired • Teen mothers shall not get cash for immediately and receive a criminal their child support grant, instead record and will never be allowed to they will get vouchers for food and teach or work in civil service again clothes, this is a measure to decrease • Issue of grants plays a role in the number of young women falling encouraging poor young women to pregnant due to wanting a cash get pregnant for the grant social grant • There isn’t enough done to • Land shall be redistributed so that all encourage young boys and girls to people derive economic benefit take good care of themselves from the land On substance abuse: On unemployment:
• EFF shall establish rehabilitation • As per the EFF Manifesto, centres in each municipality as a education will be free until graduate start level • There shall be zero tolerance to • Establish State companies that will youth drinking, young people found employ many young people drinking shall be immediately sent to • Protect certain industries to bring rehab centres back manufacturing jobs to South • Education on drugs and the Africa and beneficiate all raw consequences of drug and alcohol materials especially mined materials abuse shall be conducted on in the country community level to ensure that • Education shall be compulsory till community members are aware, age of 18, and any dropouts will be especially parents are aware that they traced by Social Workers, the high can send their children to rehab dropout rate will be eliminated centres • Ensure the implementation of • Parents shall have the right to refer affirmative action their children to attend rehab, and if • Teachers colleges should be children contest they will be tested reopened for drugs or alcohol and if found • Build libraries everywhere so people positive be remanded to rehab are literate and can pass high school centres • Teachers who suspect drug use shall refer name of child to social worker On Early Childhood Development: who shall take the case up with
parents/guardians and children • All mothers and fathers shall attend compulsory prenatal classes geared • Launch a national mobile phone to empower them to make good panic button for human trafficking choices for their child such as
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importance of good nutrition in the • Subsidizing the production of first 1,000 days of a child and television, theatre and understanding child development documentation of the South African milestones history • As per the EFF Manifesto, there will • Regulating, developing and be compulsory attendance of Early protecting the arts and culture sector Childhood Development Centres • EFF must provide financial services from the age of 3 years for practitioners in the Arts and • All ECD centres shall teach a sports sectors equal to all other curriculum determined by the South Africans Department of Education • EFF must catalyse a culture sector • Early Childhood Development that actively engages society in social centres must be expanded and cohesion programs registered with department of basic • EFF honours and centralises use education. Educators of this centres and preservation of African must be capacitated to enable them languages, culture and history to acquire and impart skill and knowledge needed for childhood On State Capacity development • Social workers to be linked to ECD • The key is to create a network of so that problems are picked up very responsiveness through social early, especially problems emanating workers and institutions in from home communities On Gender: • Ensure each family has a social • Draw and implement gender policy worker visiting once a week in • Gender representation should be a vulnerable communities. Get to zigzag approach in the EFF communities and families and give structures them hope one by one. Social worker shall check on a number of • Establish gender-based violence issues such as health, poverty levels, units in police stations especially in family dynamics and so forth rural areas that have social workers attached • Prioritise social worker training at tertiary level by establishing a social • Communities shall be educated that development training centre at all gender-based violence shall be tertiary institutions in all provinces punishable on first offence with a that will train practitioners in areas criminal record such as social work, community
development workers, early On Arts & Culture childhood development, counselling and psychology • EFF must eradicate sector monopoly by giving the people the tools to redefine their own culture On Civil Society: by; • Subsidizing the tools of trade in • To encourage civil society to enter Music, Theatre, Television and Film all communities to rebuild Production (National Studios, communities through the specific National Agencies etc) programmes civil society organisations deal in including Page 23 of 64 Economic Freedom Fighters 1ST National People’s Assembly Resolutions: People’s Power for Economic Freedom
• To encourage community-based 1. State must build internal capacity to civil society to play a crucial role in provide social grants, which will lead to strengthening democracy by the abolishment of tenders promoting and educating on 2. All social grants must be increased by citizenship 100% • To encourage the establishment of 2.1. Old Age Grant(OAG) must be community-based media that will be increase from R1350 to R2600 a source of information and 2.2. Disability Grants (DG) must education to community to foster increase from R1350 to R2400 empowered communities and 2.3. War Veterans Grants (WVG) must individuals increase from R1220 to R2440 2.4. Foster Care Grants (FCG) must increase from R830 to R1660 2.5. Child Support Grant (CSG) must increase from R 320 to R640 2.6. Care Dependency Grand (CDG) must increase from R830 to R1660 3. Unemployed social grant must be Further resolve that: introduced for R2500 per month. 4. Terminal social grants must be introduced for R 2500 per month.
Health and Education______Resolutions of the First National People’s Assembly on Health and Education Noting that: 1. Education will be free up to undergraduate level and all pupils The founding manifesto calls for the free and students will be provided with quality education and healthcare services. adequate learning and teacher support materials; and Further believing that: 2. The state should build a massive
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capacity in healthcare, and 1.6. The school sport, arts and culture remunerate medical practitioners in programs have collapsed a way that attracts best medical 1.7. The closure of educational colleges practitioners to the public healthcare has resulted in the huge deficiencies sector. and shortages of teachers in schools as the current generation of Noted that: educators are facing exit 1.8. The role and the standard of FET The South African constitution guarantees colleges in the country remain the rights of everybody; questionable and many universities 1.1. To a basic education, including do not recognise the qualifications adult basic education obtained from these colleges 1.2. To further education, which the 1.9. The current education regime calls state, through reasonable measures, for Maths literacy as the must make progressively available compulsory subject and the young and accessible; and generation are denied opportunity 1.3. To have access to health care to learn the history of the world services, including reproductive and the country in particular. This health care services shall result into many young people losing interest in the politics of the Further noting that: country and the concept of youth apathy shall prevail 1. On education 1.10. The NSFAS as a student fun 1.1. South Africa education system is d for still divided along the racial lines what the government says is for and between the rich and poor “financially needy and academically 1.2. Majority of South Africa schools deserving” has failed many students particularly in the rural areas and as it is not accessible and cannot informal settlements are still cover many students; and experiencing poor infrastructure 1.11. There is a strong need for th and do not meet the minimum e norms and standard for basic political office bearers and the education officials to continue to learn to 1.3. The education systems particularly increase their knowledge. the 30% pass mark has
compromised the quality of the system resulting in many learners or 2. On health students struggling to complete 2.1. The health systems of South Africa tertiary education if they get is in a state of crisis that requires admitted immediate attention and bail-out 1.4. That some public schools, 2.2. South Africa healthcare facilities particularly in rural areas, are not lacks sufficient infrastructure, accessible hence the so-called medications, and health scholar transport fails many learners professionals; and facilities has 1.5. That school nutrition program has become slaughter houses become an opportunity for 2.3. Post 1994 saw massive shutdown of corruption through tendering the nursing colleges and as a result systems and the lives of learners are there is currently less supply and put at risk after recent incidences of more demand for nurses food poisoning 2.4. The South African healthcare Page 25 of 64 Economic Freedom Fighters 1ST National People’s Assembly Resolutions: People’s Power for Economic Freedom
facilities are not responding to the in the traditional initiation schools; general population growth rate as 2.13. There is a high prevalence of hospitals and clinics are not HIV increases with the increase of the infections in South Africa and population; women particularly teenagers. This 2.5. The government abandoned the prevalence is manifested during following two pieces of legislations testing of pregnant women when which are; the 1994 national health they visit clinics plan and the 1995 national drug 2.14. There are many institution w policy; hich 2.6. The state by abandoning the insist on compulsory testing for legislations has then surrendered HIV in order to provide for certain the basic services to the private benefits in South Africa; healthcare providers which 2.15. There if a steady increase in t amounts to over 60% of the GDP he life expectancy, fertility and mort which benefit only 16% of the ality population. Majority of the rates; beneficiaries are whites minority; 2.16. Society to be mobilised again 2.7. The government is not st implementing the National Health proliferation of GMOs from basic Insurance scheme which to the food stuff like maize meal etc…, EFF is the progressive blue print of 2.17. South Africa has minimum c the free basic healthcare system apacity if any on the research and 2.8. There is need for the provincial development component hence 20 tertiary health care facilities as many years into democracy our people provinces does not have capacity still die on preventable diseases. for specialties; 2.9. The current pharmaceutical procurement arrangements Therefore resolved that: perpetuates corruption; promote 1. On education and protect the capital and 1.1. The South African education neo-liberal colonial systems; system must be free, accessible, 2.10. The EMS response time and unitary and of high quality until to the the attainment of single personnel are in a state of crisis, undergraduate degree; particularly in the rural areas where 1.2. The implementation of the basic the poor masses could not receive schools norms and standards be the help as urgently required and sped up with immediate eradication the shortages of ambulances of the mad schools by 2016 worsen the situation; academic year and ensure that all 2.11. The current government is school environment are safe for neglecting the traditional healers use; associations and discourages the use 1.3. The CCT to investigate the of traditional medicines; feasibility of ensuring that South Af 2.12. Currently there is a use of bo rican schools offer subjects in the th home language and the redrawing traditional circumcision and of the curriculum; professional circumcision in South 1.4. To ensure quality of education Africa and many young people die system, the national pass mark for Page 26 of 64 Economic Freedom Fighters 1ST National People’s Assembly Resolutions: People’s Power for Economic Freedom
students and learners alike should office bearers, officials and other be at least 50%, and the pass one fighters to further their studies. pass all system of pushing 2. On Health individual learners to next class 2.1. The state must ensure that must be abolished; healthcare systems is free, high 1.5. The government must immediately quality and accessible by all South build schools where people live and Africans for 24/7 basis; do away with the scholar transport 2.2. The government must pass a policy program as another vehicle to that compel public servants to use promote corruption; public facilities; 1.6. The school nutrition program is a 2.3. Nationalisation of the healthcare progressive program but service; demarcation of healthcare government must do away with into primary, secondary and tertiary tendering system and ensure that all services, declaring healthcare schools procure from the local services as a special service in terms suppliers and employ the personnel of labor law; this must also be working on the program; accompanied by creation of 1.7. The state must provide free sanitary conducive work environment and towels to all learners at schools; payment of living wage for medical 1.8. The immediate reopening of the personnel; educational colleges and all students 2.4. The state must establish a who passed Maths in good marks at comprehensive healthcare system high school but drop out at that have capacity to, among others, universities must be headhunted to treat HIV without patients being enroll for teaching of Maths and referred to their home clinics; science 2.5. The immediate improvement on 1.9. The introduction of history, the healthcare facilities’ agriculture and career guidance as infrastructure and ensure that only the compulsory subjects both professional personnel with primary and secondary school sufficient capacity to operate the levels; equipment, are deployed into these 1.10. Government must facilities; immediately scrap NSFAS and 2.6. The government must re-open the introduce free education up to the nursing colleges and abolish the first undergraduate level; private nursing colleges so as to 1.11. The CCT must investigate train and retrain the medical the expenditure patterns of NSFAS personnel to ensure the demand for since its inception; medical personnel is met with 1.12. The education system of sufficient supply; basic and higher education systems 2.7. The government must employ the must be merged into one education home-based care workers on a system; full-time basis and should provide 1.13. The resuscitation of the such service on a 24/7 basis; sports, arts and culture in the 2.8. Deployment of environmental schools and the government must health inspectors to the community ensure that it employ qualified businesses to ensure that they coaches; comply to health standards so as to 1.14. The EFF must establish the prevent the potential spread of bursary fund to help its political communicable diseases;
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2.9. State must establish the state 2.16. The CCT must explore pharmaceutical company and international mechanism terminate the use of private particularly from India and/or pharmaceutical companies China on how best to work with immediately; the traditional health association to 2.10. There must be an immediate provide efficient and reliable establishment of the medical traditional healthcare in control council to monitor the collaboration with the professional drugs used in our healthcare to medical services; ensure they comply with minimum 2.17. The CCT must engage with standard set by the council; the traditional leadership to explore 2.11. There must be the provision mechanism to create a balance of the mobile clinics in every 500 between the traditional and households; professional circumcisions without 2.12. The EFF leadership must losing the cultural practice of the provide oversight on the African people; performance of the healthcare 2.18. The CCT through its Health facilities at their respective levels; sub-committee must develop a 2.13. The NHI program must be policy on the prevention, treatment implemented as a matter of urgency and promotion of the HIV with few alterations particularly on awareness and teenage pregnancies; the current funding model; 2.19. The state through its 2.14. The state must improve capa legislative capacity must prevent city and reduce the EMS response and immediately abort the time to ensure rural poor receive compulsory testing of HIV by any faster medical attention when institution for any purpose; needed. This also includes the 2.20. The state must improve its addition of EMS vehicles and research and development capacity making roads to be accessible; to generate knowledge that shall 2.15. The CCT to investigate the help reduce maternity rate and possibility of legalizing marijuana improve the life expediency of our and many other indigenous herbs people. for health related reasons;
Justice and Correctional Services
Resolutions of the First National People’s Assembly of Justices and Correctional Services
Noting that: Further believing:
The EFF Founding Manifesto calls for 2.18. That access to high the need to transform the criminal courts and all other courts justice system to be more accessible should not be t the privilege of and also representative of South those with money. African demographics.
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4.1. That correctional services 8. 4. South Africa is to review our law system should also be system. The EFF to create a corrective, not punitive. committee to investigate whether 4.2. That economic justice courts the current system is working, should also be established to revisit customary law and extract adjudicate over civil matters from it relevant aspects that may involving individuals and improve the justice system and take corporations in order to inspiration from the Nordic law acquire maximum justice for system. those who are not treated 9. Sentencing lawfully by corporations. 10. 5. EFF to build mini law clinics to educate the community so they Further noting: understand how the law works, 4.3. That the levels of re-arrests in their rights and not misinterpret South Africa are very high, sentences. because the country’s Basic Law should be added to the correctional services system is school curriculum as well. not corrective. 11. Bail 12. 6. Abolish bail but reserve it for Therefore resolve: special cases where the accused is 4.4. The correctional services deemed an immediate security risk system should be transformed to the state and community. to include compulsory 13. 7. The judiciary plus social workers education and skilling for all must exercise extensive discretion prisoners. to confirm whether or not a person can afford bail. The same system used for parolees can then be used for awaiting trial prisoners. 14. Rape 8. The EFF must sit on how we 5. 1. Immediate campaign: The EFF is to deal with rapists that rape minors, attract a voluntary lawyer service willing essentially separate rape to two to be aligned to the organisation to categories. provide such services when needed by 15. Immediate campaign: Condemn fighters or communities that can't the rape of babies afford. 16. 9. Standardise the provision of psychological support for special cases to all communities. 6. 2. The EFF is to ensure no one is 17. 10. Immediate campaign: EFF incarcerated until there is evidence must redefine rape to include they are guilty. sexual harassment of men to be 7. 3. Champion calls of people meant called rape and encourage victims to be receiving social services but to come forward while removing are not. stigma, especially from police officers. Page 29 of 64 Economic Freedom Fighters 1ST National People’s Assembly Resolutions: People’s Power for Economic Freedom
18. 11. Immediate campaign: Recruit maybe a 24 hour CCTV camera per lawyers into EFF. prison. 19. - Emphasis to be put on function 33. POLICE and powers of the Constitutional 34. 22. Immediate program: Have Court government relook at training of 20. Immediate task: Call for the police in South Africa and inculcate independence of Chapter 9 in their training basic tenets of law. Institutions' budget 35. 23. Ensure police focus is not only 21. Justice and correctional services internal but are adequately should take a rehabilitative outlook. capacitated to deal with border 22. CORRECTIONAL SERVICES control and border laws. 12. Amend Correctional Services 36. 24. Transform mindset of police Act so people are incarcerated per officers so they see their duties as a crime level, create specialised/ calling not just a job separate jails, eg, Awaiting Trial 37. 25. CPF's must be adequately Prisoner Jails, petty crime jails, capacitated to ensure law is dangerous crime jails etc… observed in the community and 23. 13. Immediate program: EFF must should not have a dominant be fundamentally opposed to any political party affiliation. forms of gangsterism. 38. 26. Administration of SAPS needs 24. 14. Consider other prison systems to be totally transformed as is it still that would best serve South Africa, highly racialised. ie, Nordic System 39. 27. Police, judiciary and Home 25. 15. Private prisons must be banned. Affairs systems need to be inter- 26. 16. EFF must work on a program linked. that will effectively develop 40. 28. All officers not on duty must be prisoners from 8am to 4pm. monitored to ensure they do not 27. 17. There should be a precise skills abuse police assets. development program for prisoners 41. 29. Emphasise that the EFF is and they should have a choice what against the abuse of state security program to partake in. services against the people. 28. 18. EFF must run a transparent, 42. 30. Investigate and analyse South fair, accountable, equitable Africa's readiness for a Gun Free correctional services system with Society. no preference to anyone, except for 43. All police reservists must get medical reasons. permanent jobs after a 24-month 29. 19. EFF is to create a program so period. correctional services staff see their - A police officer is to be assigned duty as a calling than a mere job. one unique gun with a personal 30. 20. Lawyers are to facilitate the serial number to use throughout processes for people who have their career instead of changing been imprisoned for more than a guns per shift to combat police quarter past their sentence. brutality. 31. 21. Prisoners must be cleared of 44. DEFENCE their crimes as soon as their 31. Break ignorance is black people sentences end. on the defence issue and eventually 32. Prisons are to get a more create campaigns where the people productive monitoring system, protect the defence force as they aren't allowed to strike.
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45. 32. EFF must run a transparent, together with those of all other fair, accountable, equitable defence public servants, eg, teachers, nurses force including recruitment and etc… employment. 49. PRIVATE SECURITY 46. 33. People must be encouraged to 36. Immediate task: Expose how get at least one year military the multi-national corporations training post matric. This is also to have taken over the security cluster ensure skills set and personality with the ANC giving foreigners traits one can only have post a space to do as they please thus military background i.e. time exposing this country to all kinds management, respect, discipline, of security risks. loyalty etc are incorporated into 50. EFF is to create an EFF think tank our everyday lives. whose purpose will be to be the 47. 34. The moral fibre of the country intelligence of the organisation. must be reviewed and highly - EFF is to liaise with the ZANU-PF integrated into the defence force. intelligence for knowledge and tactic Lifestyles of military personnel are sharing. deteriorating as they are sometimes - Lobby the government to create an found drunk or are part of public economic division in NIA to deal with disorder. cartels, tax evasion and price fixing 48. 35. Salaries of security cluster are given weakness on the competition too be reviewed and standardised, commission.
Media and Battle of Ideas______
Resolutions of the First National People’s Assembly on Media and Battle of Ideas
Noting that: capitalist ownership and privilege. Who knows 1. South African society has what, for what purposes been deeply shaped by continues to be largely colonial capitalism, and as determined by who owns a result access to what or has how much information is structured access to power and by patterns of colonial Page 31 of 64 Economic Freedom Fighters 1ST National People’s Assembly Resolutions: People’s Power for Economic Freedom
resources depend on the very colonial masters for 2. The ideological macroeconomic planning, apparatuses of the colonial and general economic capitalist society pursued ideas. the direct interpolation of blacks as precisely subjects 5. For a revolution to of racial exploitation; the happen, a revolutionary education system, the movement must provide a media, the urban and rural revolutionary ideology and family, as well as religious cogent revolutionary organisations. Blacks were program to the many socialised to hate rebellions, revolts and themselves, not to believe protests of the oppressed. in themselves, both as a group and as individuals. 6. The ideas of the Worst of all, blacks were revolutionary movement socialised to accept their must ultimately gain position as inferior and to hegemony against the neo- “fear a world without colonial capitalist ruling whites” as Fanon rightly ideas for a real says transformation of society to take place. 3. Capitalism has made the neoliberal ideology a normal and natural state of Believing that: affairs. That wage labour, privatisation, marketisation, outsourcing 7. The oppressed must speak and production for profit and must hear themselves are thought as natural – this is the task at hand. ways of doing modern The EFF must spread the economics. ideas of economic freedom whose ultimate 4. Since the birth of the post- result must be the 1994 state, the African oppressed telling their Revolution has been stories, and living it out in trapped by ideological practical action inadequacies predicted by Fanon in the Wretched of 8. The seven cardinal pillars the Earth about an of the EFF, as expressed inability and lack of in the EFF Founding appreciation of the Manifesto constitute the economic critique of the ideological and colonial situation by programmatic basis for liberation movement. what should constitute the These movements lack battle of ideas that EFF economic knowledge of must wage their own country and
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9. The EFF is a socialist 3. The English language Economic Emancipation remains the predominant Movement that uses language of discourse Marxist -Leninist -Fanion particularly in print media tools of analysis; a “radical, and television. Radio, leftist, anti-capitalist and which has the largest reach anti-imperialist movement of all mediums in South with an internationalist Africa and in many ways outlook anchored by precisely because of that, popular grassroots is the most diverse in formations and struggles”. terms of language reach as The EFF is a vanguard of it caters for all official community and workers’ languages struggles and will always be on the side of the 4. Print media is reported as people. The EFF must, reaching 65.6% of the “with determination and adult population, with an consistency, associate with average issue readership of the protest movement in 22,925-million. The report South Africa and will also demonstrates the stability join in struggles that defy of print media over a two unjust laws”. year period, and at times records growth Further Noting that: 5. SABC is dominant in 1. As things stand, traditional ownership and control of media in South Africa is the radio and TV industry, inaccessible to the and private commercial oppressed, yet it survives television station’s HDI through their audience ownership sits on an participation, precisely to average of 64.4% per provide the deadly opium television station. There sterilising revolutionary are additional 13 private ideas in them commercial radio stations which are regional or 2. Traditional media can be provincial stations; they categorised into three; have 16.5% of the total Broadcast Media which radio adult audience includes television and radio; Print Media which 6. The SABC has in recent describes newspapers, history suppressed adverts magazines and knock-and- that are critical of the drop; New Media which government during includes Internet and elections, and refuses to Mobile phone media. All offer live coverage of these may either be public, opposition parties’ events. commercial or Yet it broadcasts all the community-based major events of the ruling party live in its radio and
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television platforms. propaganda. The SABC as a broadcasting space is 7. This hostility of the SABC therefore shutting down is a threat to the basic slowly for meaningful tenets of a democratic democratic contestation practice in a democratic and participation. It is South Africa. It is undoing deteriorating as the diversity of views, not only platform of public scrutiny in explicit political content on power and government but all content that may be in particular. critical of the ruling party. Another example is the 10. Television in South Africa closing down of the Big is shifting towards Digital Debate just on the eve of Terrestrial Television 2014 general elections, which will allow access to which was a popular show a more efficient use of that managed to expose radio frequency spectrum the failures of as well as better quality government. pictures and sound. This shift in South Africa has 8. The SABC has further seen a multimillion mobilised artists and other investment initiative that entertainers during tries to provide successful elections to support and migration into digital publicly promote the television without ruling party with the threat excluding the poor where that their platforms on Set-Top-Boxes which SABC may be withdrawn. facilitate the conversion of digital signal into analogue 9. Twenty years into will be provided for by democracy, the South government for 5 million African government is poor households. restructuring communications 11. The state is set to spend significantly both through billions in distribution of government internal media these devices through the as well as through entities Post Office and Universal like the SABC, MDDA, Service and Access Fund. and ICASA. The creation DTT migration must be of the ministry of closely monitored as communications inclusive mistakes in the of GCIS, SABC and distribution of Set-Top- MDDA, where Boxes may leave most of Information and poor families without Communications access to broadcasting Technology and Postal service once a switch from Services are run separately analogue to digital must be read signifying the television is made. beginning of state
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12. There is not clarity on liberal individualism, as ICASA’s status as a well as marginalisation of Chapter 9 institution with narratives of popular the mandate to guard classes. Media, print in democracy. Although particular, has capacity to chapter nine of the conduct public trails of Constitution calls for an key individuals in society, independent authority to thus prejudicing them regulate broadcasting, it before court processes does not mandate ICASA establish findings. Media is and interpretations vary. susceptible to This makes those who run manipulation by the ICASA entrapped in a wealthy and powerful schizophrenic situation where they are prone to 15. ‘Self-regulation’ of media direct governmental remains central to a influence. progressive democratic media practice. 13. Ownership of print media is trapped in an oligarchic Resolve: situation of the domination of few companies - Media24, 48. To aggressively fight for Caxton; and Avusa. This diversification in terms of ownership, too is not in the best control and language spread. The interest of democratic development and strengthening of contestation and diversity community-based papers and the of views. All are promotion of the emergence of dominated by the English “grassroots” oriented media that language and also control a capitalises doing journalism not on the lot of local print basis on popular stories for sales, but publications. They too giving voice to ordinary and poor have demonstrated communities. hostility at revolutionary ideas, and popular 49. To fight that the Ombudsman and narratives of the poor, like the press council must be strengthened reporting the labour in the inserts of bring accessible to the strikes in bad light, with most vulnerable when they are general depiction of offended, marginalised and workers as unreasonable. misrepresented by media houses
14. This space remains the 50. There must be an independent heaven of the promotion commission of enquiry into the of white supremacist manipulation of the SABC news culture in terms of contents through parliament, with a representations of broad view to reinforce the independence of aesthetics and life values, the SABC from ruling party the promotion of capitalist manipulation. consumerist culture and
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50. ICASA must be elevated as a 54. With the spread of gadgets we are Chapter 9 institution. EFF must put it looking at more than 50% of the to parliament for legislation to be population having a smart phone with reviewed in the interest of such an internet access in the next three years. elevation and cogent mandate on the By all conservative estimation, part of ICASA. In addition, time depending on the invention of a cheap allocation must be included to have a smartphone and tablet, the 2019 cogent definition of equitable general elections will be fought on the distribution with the exclusion of sky. number of seats an already existing party has in parliament. Other criterion 55. Focus needs to be put on mass can work; number of provinces being media social network like Facebook, contested, if the party is contesting Twitter and YouTube as key elements national elections, as well as number of in the spread of ideas due to their candidates being fielded for elections. interactivity. This is despite the These must be done before the next importance of all message related local government elections. networks whose significance remains in the spread of message. 51. The Media diversification through MDDA must be advanced to Resolve that: undermine the oligarchy within the print media industry. MDDA must be 56. The EFF must occupy social media prioritised in rural and poor network aggressively to gain relevance communities to invest in media and also influence social discourse. publications that use local language and That the social media network strategy tell local stories. be professionalised through sourcing professional help. Further note that: 60. In light of the fact that Internet 52. Key element in the diversification, offers alternative means to online and at times, democratisation of media broadcasting and publications, there is the invention of the mobile phone should be an initiative to establish EFF and tablet in how they facilitate access online radio and television be pursued to internet. Mobile phones first break with people accessing it via mobile communications barriers in many and technology devices. different ways, but they give people access to radio and internet; key 61. There must be a multimedia amongst which is social media. capacity that uses photographic, video and voice recording facilities to 53. Two developments in the generate publications and the spread of communications sector must therefore EFF ideas. be monitored as they set up a massive stage and fundamental shift for the 62. Establishment of a weekly battle and flow of ideas; it is broadband publication whose immediate goal is penetration and the spread of mobile provision of commentary on current gadgets; smart mobile phones and affairs to provide guidance and tablets. ideological tools to engage developments
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63. There must be an online quarterly with a view to establish a South African journal that aims at substantial state owned electronics company publications on the development of whose first product must be a South policy and ideological tools of analysis African smart phone. which can also be published in limited print copies. 68. The State must provide radical infrastructure for the provision of free 64. EFF media must generate feeds and high speed internet, with strict from the grassroots to give voice to priority on education centres. struggles on the ground, not just in written form, but other recordings; 69. The propagation of EFF ideas must such as photography, video and voice find reach into international media, to files. The people on the ground must ensure that the message of Economic be able to find platform on the EFF to Freedom in Our Lifetime finds friends tell their stories, struggles and generate abroad. more circulation of the revolutionary ideas of economic freedom, with a 70. The SABC must dedicate 70% of focus on internet sources. its airtime to local content, in particular to film and entertainment productions 65. The CCT must look into establishing the Printing Press that 71. There should be usage of classical belongs to the organisation. marketing tools like pamphleteering where alternative communications (in 66. There should be the establishment different languages) are produced of EFF independent Radio. explaining complex ideas of the Economic Emancipation Movement 67. There should be a campaign on the reduction of the cost to communicate,
Land and Agrarian Resolution______Resolutions of the First National People’s Assembly Land and Agrarian Resolutions
Noting that: approaches and deals with matters of land and agrarian reform. 1. Expropriation of South Africa’s land 3. The South African government led without compensation for equal by the ANC has failed to expedite redistribution in use is the first pillar land redistribution. of EFF’s non-negotiable seven 4. EFF’s approach to the land question cardinal pillars. has not changed; it still firmly 2. The Economic Freedom Fighters believes in the transfer of land Founding Manifesto remains the ownership and custodianship to the fundamental political and ideological state in a similar way that all mineral programme on how the organisation and petroleum resources were Page 37 of 64 Economic Freedom Fighters 1ST National People’s Assembly Resolutions: People’s Power for Economic Freedom
transferred to the ownership and • Rejection of Agri-villages as custodianship of the state through proposed by the Minister and Agri- the Minerals and Petroleum SA. There are no government Resources Development Act services in those villages (MPRDA) of 2002. • Commissars in Parliament must repeat the offer of 6% to the State to change the laws in this country Therefore resolve that: and inform the communities if they • Permits to occupy to be converted refuse. into title deeds for the majority of • The land portfolio which should be our people eg the Ngonyama Trust established by the CCT must come for King Zwelithini in KZN up with concrete proposals as to • State ownership of land is critical. what will be an election paragraph Land must be owned by the state on land into 2016 election and the state must then redistribute. manifesto. • We cannot pay for stolen land. • Land rights to go hand in hand with mineral rights. If you own land • Let us use the land claim as a train whatever is below and above should to take us to the 2016 local elections. be yours. We support some of the land invasions that are taking place • Take the land back to be a campaign around the country. slogan towards 2016 local election. • Call for land audit so that we use • The EFF must push for land that against government to show revolution by giving government them how slow they have been deadline in which the majority of terms of giving land back to our our people people. All provinces through • Commissars in Parliament to pass a regional structures should get State motion of scrabbling of property land audit through district clause municipalities by the end of March • A campaign to identify and occupy next year. vacant and unused land • Taking land struggles on behalf of • EFF to set up a Solidarity Fund to our people by for instance taking assist all those who may be in state to court when the state is conflict with landowners, the state infringing on the rights of people. authorities, police and courts in This in a way is campaign machinery pursuant to the resolution on because we are trying to mobilise occupation of unused and society. unoccupied land. • We should go back to the bush and • Convene and establish relationships fight for our land (arm struggle). with advisory bodies and institutions Embarking on bicycles and mirrors on land to refer some of the cases. campaign as protest machinery thus • By March 2015 should have been making a powerful statement to the engaged on land claims matters so as communities on land question to show interest on them being part especially towards 2016 local of land claims since the recent government elections. government is neglecting them.
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Fundraising and Finance______Resolutions of the First National People’s Assembly on Fundraising and Finance Noting that: orchestrated by our enemies (white capital monopoly) and the ruling 1. The organisation has just got to the party. We need to adapt by adopting second phase of its formation stage, various survival, modern financial which is the first NPA, of which it’s tactics. still pursuing its founding manifesto 3. The organisation must conform to resolutions, which is the economic the highest financial policy, emancipation of our society, guided accounting and auditing systems, in by the seven non-negotiable cardinal order to ensure that there are clear pillars. financial controls throughout all the 2. As an organisation we are operating organisational structures. within a dynamic society, and 4. Financing of the organisation is the through volatile situation cornerstone function of the Page 39 of 64 Economic Freedom Fighters 1ST National People’s Assembly Resolutions: People’s Power for Economic Freedom
organisation, so that it can be able to national, provincial and regional fulfil its mandate as outlined in EFF offices. founding manifesto. 7. Resolve on keeping membership 5. The organisation needs to take fee at R10 for all members. decisive steps to secure financial 8. All branches in good standing stability and consistent funding and must open bank accounts with 3 fund-raising model. months from this PPA, with a treasure as one of the We therefore resolved: signatories. 9. All members who earn income 1. That the organisation must must be encouraged to conform to the highest financial contribute to the organisation policy, accounting and auditing within their affordability: for a systems, in order to ensure that revolution that can’t fund itself there are clear financial controls poses a danger. throughout all the organisational 10. Foreign and internal funding structures. must be permitted, however they 2. Employ financial accounting should regulated to avoid systems and reporting processes, exploitation by external forces. in order to ensure accountability 11. EFF Finance must be able to and transparency on the speak to organisational tasks. organisation finances. 12. Conference must resolve that all 3. All major expenditures at all fundraising done in the name of organisational structures must be the organisation or bearing the through a resolution by the said name/logo of the organisation structure, led by the treasure of must be done within parameters that structure. of the financial policy and with 4. Resolve that the organisation the authority of the structure at must explore other fund-raising various level mechanisms, such as investing 13. Resolve that the CCT must with private, credible investment develop financial management institutions. policy by 2015 June 5. Resolve to adopt strict and 14. Further resolve that with protected financial reporting immediate effect the CCT policy, so to guard against should to develop fundraising exploitation and victimisation by strategy and manual our enemies. 15. The Assembly resolves the CCT 6. The organisation before its next should speedily develop NPA must have purchased and procurement policy. owning of all its offices from the
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International Relations and Solidarity Resolutions of the First National People’s Assembly on International Relations and Solidarity This 1st National People’s Assembly the rib of full and uncompromised notes that: liberation both political and economic continued to fight • The African continent has been relentlessly for full economic plagued by wars driven by colonial freedom and justice. powers over natural resources resulting in the people of the world coalesced around the common Further noting that: aspiration to end capitalist greed. Some liberation movements • The Founding Manifesto of EFF however lost their compass post makes a firm analysis that “…the liberation and others yielded from struggle for economic emancipation within Page 41 of 64 Economic Freedom Fighters 1ST National People’s Assembly Resolutions: People’s Power for Economic Freedom
the long resistance of South Africans to • The outcry of the continent in light racist colonial and imperialist, political, of the skewed policy stances and economic and social domination…this compromises of the African represents more than 350 years of continent by the current ANC-led Africans’ resistance against colonial and government have resulted in the economic domination and exploitation.” continent viewing South Africa as a (EFF Founding Manifesto, July sub imperialist power. This is only 2013.) The Founding Manifesto because the economic trajectory of continues, “More than 350 years later, South Africa is fundamentally and the war of resistance has not been won, and principally flawed based on the the battles that were fought almost represent National Development Plan and nothing, because 20 years after the New Growth Path. attainment of formal political freedom, the black people of South Africa still live in absolute mass poverty, are landless, their children have no productive future, they are mistreated and they are looked down upon in a sea of wealth.” Further notes:
• With this in mind it is impossible to
align that country’s national interest Believing that: in light of its policy posture to the actual national interest of the • The fight to achieve economic African majority. The consequence freedom for South Africans, the of an economy that does not continent and the oppressed people prioritise domestic needs and of the world is therefore a pivotal challenges results in compromising feature of the programme of the the economy which is meant to Economic Freedom Fighters. work for national interest to prioritising the capital forces of the world.
The NPA resolves that: Believes that: • The EFF will shape its radical transformational internationalist • The Economic Freedom Fighters outlook by fulfilling the mandate of views the twenty years of democracy the party by building and as wasted as the ANC has been strengthening party to party relations unable to craft a coherent economic and continental and international path for a fundamental shift in solidarity in order to achieve economic power relations. The progressive internationalism. weaknesses and indecisiveness of the current government have severely compromised the African Agenda; On the state of South Africa’s Foreign which has resulted in a continent Policy: that has been betrayed. Economic diplomacy has yielded no • developmental value for the country The NPA notes that: even as basic as educating the
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nation. It has however ensured the The 1st NPA further resolves that: wealth of a few and growing rapidly in particular filling the pockets of • The seven non-negotiable cardinal patronage within the ruling party. pillars are at the centre of what is in the national interest for the EFF and • Ironically, the quick shifts in foreign the international policy outlook are policy and the sale of the natural primarily in the national interest, resources have resulted in the which is to achieve economic unfortunate consequence of the freedom in our lifetime for our push for the ceding of borders and a people. reformist approach to international • The strategic geo-political relations; this has resulted in South positioning of South Africa must be African foreign policy having lost its reaffirmed in order to yield its moral obligation to the nation and maximum benefit. the continent and is left with individuals who seek to abuse their access to power as a means of deeming irrelevant even the most basic and fundamental principle of national sovereignty. On changing the current international structures: Further believes that: The 1st NPA notes that:
• South Africa’s presence in the • EFF will radically pursue the United Nations Security Council has democratisation and radical been insignificant reflective of its transformation of multilateral bodies foreign policy. The Security Council, so that they are reflective of the the main UN peace making body, countries of the world as oppose to still dominated by the victors of the reflecting the economic and military Second World War, has not lived up strength of countries. This equally to its mandate. It has allowed applies to South Africa’s presence in conflicts to proliferate and the United Nations Security intervened arbitrarily. Council.
Therefore resolves that: Resolves that:
• EFF characterises SA Progressive • The EFF will agitate for a radical Foreign Policy as Transformational, transformation to the United Revolutionary, Marxist-Leninist Nations (Security Council) to be Fanonian with an internationalist democratic and representative of the outlook with the aim of achieving ideals and aspirations of the African Economic Freedom in our Lifetime people by ensuring the for the African people in particular implementation of an and oppressed people in general uncompromising domestic with a direct inclination to the economic policy based on rigorous working class. industrialisation that would ensure that foreign demand is met at the
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price and supply of the domestic market. On EFF leading Africa and Progressive Movements: The NPA notes that: The 1st NPA notes that: • The dire and urgent need for the massive development of the African • The African Agenda requires urgent economy and advocates for a move attention. The Western Sahara from reconciliation to justice on the remains the only country in the entire continent. continent that is still colonised.
Resolves that: Further notes:
• South Africa’s participation in • That the people of Swaziland remain international formations should be oppressed and have not experienced based on radical economic democracy. transformation for the continent and massive development for the Resolves that: African continent through industrialisation which must include • EFF calls for dismantling of organs the Blue economy, Green economy and apparatus of world aggression and the Knowledge economy. and coercion like the NATO and • Transfer pricing and profit shifting discontinuation of proliferation of is a corrupt and criminal practice weapons of mass destruction; that continues to undermines the • EFF demands the immediate closure value of the continents’ resources. of all foreign military and high The EFF calls for an immediate end command structures in Africa, to transfer pricing and profit shifting particularly in Botswana and and that such criminality be declared Morocco. as an international crime against • EFF will lobby, campaign, and humanity as it bears the implement incremental boycotts, consequence of deepening poverty disinvestment and sanctions against and inequality in society. the apartheid state of Israel, as a
concrete form of solidarity with the • The EFF further condemns multi Palestinians, to end the illegal nationals that dominate society and occupation of Palestinian territories send their profits off shore whilst and state by the Zionist state of not advancing local empowerment Israel. further perpetuate this. The reality is • EFF will work towards the rejection that in South Africa key sectors of the African Command Centre, a remain dominated by multi nationals military programme of the United but the continued suppression of States based in Botswana local competition is not visible due • EFF will work in solidarity with the to multinationals that continue to people of Western Sahara to realise dominate under the surface of which real political independence from the manufacturing sector amongst colonial domination. others has fallen prey.
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The NPA further resolves that:
• Political parties in Swaziland are unbanned with immediate effect • There must be an unconditional withdrawal of all politically inspired charges against political leaders and activists in Swaziland Special Resolution on Swaziland: • There should be Free Trade Union Activity and Freedom of The NPA resolves that: expression of the media. • The Economic Freedom • Mswati is isolated with Fighters call for the immediate immediate effect and should that and unconditional release of the not happen then Swaziland must President of PUDEMO, Cde be expelled from SADC and the Mario Masuku, the Secretary AU immediately General of SWAYOCO, Cde Maxwell Dlamini, and ALL The above should serve as immediate re- Political Prisoners languishing in introduction of Constitutional multi-party Mswati's jails. democracy in Swaziland together revolutionary, fearless, radical, and militant activists, workers’ movements, non- governmental organisations, community based organisations, lobby-groups under the
need to pursue the struggle for economic emancipation. The EFF is a radical, Left, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movement with an internationalist outlook anchored by popular EFF CONSTITUTION as adopted by the First grassroots formations and struggles. EFF National People’s Assembly in Mangaung, Bloemfontein , 1 will be the vanguard of community and 6 December 2014 workers’ struggles and will always be on the side of the people. EFF will, with determination and consistency, associate with the protest movement in South Africa, and will also join in struggles that defy ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS unjust laws.
Constitution The EFF takes lesson from the notion that “political power, without economic A. Preamble emancipation is meaningless”. The Movement is inspired by ideals that promote and practice organic forms of ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS is a political leadership, which appreciate that radical and militant Economic political leadership at whatever level is Emancipation Movement which brings
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The EFF subscribes to the Marxist-Leninist 2. The EFF takes socialism as the and Fanonian schools of thought on its theoretical basis guiding its thinking analysis of the State, imperialism, class and and development of its political line race contradictions in every society. and in this respect identifies itself as a Through organic engagement and constant MARXIST, LENINIST, and relationship with the masses, Economic FANONIAN organisation. Freedom Fighters provide clear and cogent alternatives to the post-colonial economic 3. The basic programme of the EFF is systems, which in many countries kept the the complete overthrow of the neo oppressed people under colonial domination liberal anti-black state as well as the and suppression bourgeoisie and all other exploiting classes; the establishment of the B. Logo and colours dictatorship of the people in place of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie The Logo of the EFF shall be the map of and the triumph of socialism over the Continent of Africa representing a capitalism. The ultimate aim of the commitment to its people, resources and EFF is the realisation of socialism humanity. The Continent will be coloured in through people’s power and the green to signify the Land that must be establishment of a state that responds restored to its people. From within the to the needs of its people. Southern tip of the Continent will be a black clinched fist signifying the unity in strength 4. The EFF is anti-capitalist, anti-racist, of the oppressed of the continent. The fist anti-sexist and anti-imperialist in its will carry a red spear signifying the defence world outlook and is driven by sound of the African Revolution mired by the democratic socialist values where the blood of the fallen heroes and heroines of leadership is accountable to the our liberation struggle. At the bottom of the membership which elected it. fist, shall be a shaft, representing the 5. The EFF is a vanguard mass minerals of the earth, which shall be used organisation leading the revolutionary for the benefit of all. Finally, at the northern masses in the fight against the tip of the continent shall be a gold star, capitalist class enemy representing the progressive internationalist character of our African Revolution, 2) Aims and Objectives international solidarity and the pursuit of total emancipation of the oppressed peoples 1) To capture political and state of the world power through whatever revolutionary means possible to 1) What is the EFF? transform the economy for the benefit of all, in particular 1. The ECONOMIC FREEDOM Africans. FIGHTERS (EFF) is an Economic Emancipation Political Movement 2) To establish and sustain a society which seeks to act in the interests of that cherishes revolutionary all South Africans, Africans and cultural values and to create people of the world striving for conditions for total political and socialism and ECONOMIC economic emancipation, Page 46 of 64 Economic Freedom Fighters 1ST National People’s Assembly Resolutions: People’s Power for Economic Freedom
prosperity and equitable 3. Building State and government distribution of wealth of the capacity, which will lead to nation. abolishment of Tenders.
3) To attain and defend the National 4. Free quality education, healthcare, Integrity and Liberation of the houses, and sanitation. oppressed black majority of South Africa. 5. Massive protected industrial development to create millions of 4) To participate in the global sustainable jobs. struggle for the complete eradication of imperialism, 6. Massive development of the African colonialism, racism and all other economy and advocating for a move forms of discrimination. from reconciliation to justice.
5) To participate in, support and 7. Open, accountable government and promote all struggles for the society without fear of victimisation attainment of the complete by the State Defence, Police and other independence and unity of African Agencies. states and by extension, the African continent. These seven non-negotiable cardinal pillars will constitute the core program of the 6) To oppose resolutely, tribalism, government of the EFF and all its structures regionalism, religious and cultural outside government at branch, regional, intolerance. provincial and national level.
7) To oppose oppression of women and the oppression of all other gendered persons. 4) Membership of EFF
8) To oppose patriarchy, sexism, and 1. Any South African citizen not limited homophobia and any to any worker, peasant, revolutionary discriminatory practices that element, unemployed person who has promotes the oppression of reached the age of sixteen and who anyone, women in particular. accepts the Constitution of the EFF, joins a branch of the organisation and 3) Seven Non-Negotiable Cardinal works actively in it, carries out the Pillars organisation’s decisions, observes its discipline and pays membership dues At the centre of the struggle for economic may become a member of the EFF. emancipation are the following seven non- negotiable cardinal pillars;
1. Expropriation of South Africa’s land 2. All members shall comply with the without compensation for equal provisions of this Constitution as well redistribution. as with the Aims, Objectives, Principles and Policies of the EFF, 2. Nationalisation of mines, banks, and and shall sign the following other strategic sectors of the declaration, which shall be in each economy. membership form:
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“I fighter……… solemnly declare acceptance, a member shall pay the that I will abide by the aims, joining fee determined by the Central objectives and radical policies of the Command Team. Economic Freedom Fighters as set out in the Constitution of the EFF. I voluntarily join the EFF without any motive of personal gain or material 5) Rights of Members benefit, and understand that I am not entitled to any positions or Every member of the EFF shall have the deployments. I will participate in the right: life of the Economic Freedom Fighters to strive towards total emancipation of South Africa, Africa 1. To vote and be voted for in any office and the oppressed of the world and of the EFF in accordance with such will do so as a loyal, active and rules and regulations as adopted by disciplined Economic Freedom the CCT Fighter. 2. ) To participate in meetings and all other activities organised by the EFF, unless decided otherwise by I further declare to defend the proud constitutional structures of the eff. and militant legacy of the fallen heroines and heroes. To work towards 6) Duties of the Member a South Africa that belongs to all who live in it. Defend the African revolutionary tradition against all Every member of the EFF shall have the forms of tendencies that promote duty: hatred, division, underdevelopment, corruption and social discords. I vow 1) To be loyal to the EFF. to defend and selflessly pursue the 2) To observe and respect the Policies, realisation of the seven non- Resolutions, Decisions of the negotiable cardinal pillars as a primary National Peoples Assembly, Central political program of the EFF Command Team, all constitutional contained in the Founding Manifesto. structures and the Rules and Regulations of the EFF. I further commit to abide by the 3) To constantly and continuously principle of democratic centralism strive to raise the level of her/his which is that the individual is own political consciousness and subordinate to the organisation, the understanding of EFF Policies, minority is subordinate to the Resolutions, Rules and Regulations. majority, the lower level is 4) To strengthen, promote and defend subordinate to the higher level, and the EFF and to popularise its decisions of the upper structures are politics, policies and programs. binding on the lower structures.” 5) To conduct herself / himself 3. All members of the EFF may not join, honestly and honourably in dealing participate, or associate in any with the EFF and the broader public organisation and activities whose aims and not to bring the EFF into and objectives are inconsistent and disrepute or ridicule. contradictory with those of EFF. On Page 48 of 64 Economic Freedom Fighters 1ST National People’s Assembly Resolutions: People’s Power for Economic Freedom
6) To put the interests of the EFF differences, be faithful to the above any other political revolutionary ideas of the considerations or personal organisation through good and bad ambitions. times and through this whole process look out for each other. In 7) ALL MEMBERS OF THE EFF this way we express our MUST TAKE INSTRUCTIVE revolutionary outlook and NOTE OF AND collectivity while at the same time INTERNALISE THE boosting the morale of membership. FOLLOWING: 1) The political line of the EFF is the 4) Also inside the EFF there should fundamental and crucial factor in the always be much collective discussion interaction between EFF and the and struggle over ideas of what is to larger material world. It is the be done, over right and wrong ideas lifeblood of the organisation and in the development of the should be at the heart of every revolutionary line and practice to member’s activity and duties. The which all members are expected to life of EFF and hence that of the contribute; this is the life blood of revolution compels a very high level the organisation. But against the of commitment from each member ideological enemies of Economic which in turn shall be guided by the Freedom in our lifetime we close struggle to develop, grasp and apply our ranks as a collective forming an our political line and through that iron wall of unity and allegiance to process sharpen it. the revolution and hence making it impossible for them to break our 2) In refining and carrying out the ranks political line, EFF acts as a collective. Every member’s actions 5) Learning or education is an active in any given situation can make a process that requires members to huge difference—positive or self-develop and seek clarity where negative. At the same time, the they don’t understand or feel organisation is expected to enable its confused. Finally, the political members to pull together so as to development of each member is a understand why it is necessary to revolutionary responsibility of all struggle for and achieve our strategic engaged in struggle. goal of Economic Freedom in our lifetime. Members are expected to 6) Unity is a paramount principle of channel their insights and initiative the EFF. The sowing of disunity into a collective process and this in within the ranks of the EFF and the turn enables a more comprehensive oppressed will be severely dealt with. analysis of reality, and a much more meaningful mobilisation of the 8) Members of the EFF are accordingly people to transform that reality. This expected to: is way beyond what any single
individual acting alone, or even a 1) Study and apply the theoretical line loose affiliation of individuals could of the organisation being Marxist, ever achieve. Leninist and Fanonian philosophical thought and tools of analysis in a 3) Inside the EFF, members are living way. expected to thrash out their Page 49 of 64 Economic Freedom Fighters 1ST National People’s Assembly Resolutions: People’s Power for Economic Freedom
2) Work for the interests of the vast 2) Provincial People’s Assembly which majority of people of South Africa, elects the Provincial Command Africa and the oppressed of the Team (PCT). world. 3) A Regional People’s Assembly which 3) Be willing and able to unite with elects the Regional Command Team the vast majority, including those (RCT). who have been wrong in opposing them but are sincerely correcting 4) Branch People’s Assembly which their mistakes and hence showing elects the Branch Command Team remorse for their previous mistakes. (BCT). However, members must vigilantly guard against elements of 5) EFF structures terms of office unrepentant opportunism, reaction a. BCT – 2 years and revisionism so as to prevent b. RCT – 3 Years such bad elements from infiltrating c. PCT – 4 years the leadership of the organisation. d. CCT – 5 Years This is a necessary prerequisite to ensure and guarantee that the 6) Branches of the EFF shall be ward- leadership of the EFF remains based, but can be recognised in always in the hands of demarcations decided by the CCT. revolutionaries. 7) Every member of the EFF shall 4) Consult with the masses and belong to a branch, which is the investigate the necessary conditions basic unit of activity for members. A when matters arise. Branch General Assembly is a normal meeting of the general 5) Be bold in making internal membership of the EFF in the constructive criticism and self- branch and shall be convened every criticism without fear or favour three months to receive reports on the state of the organisation, fill vacancies and deal with any other issue that affects the branch and its membership. Each Branch shall be registered with the CCT and shall consist of no less than 100 members. A BCT is elected every two years by a Branch People’s Assembly. The BCT shall comprise 9) EFF Structures and Organs of the Chairperson, Deputy Chairperson, Secretary, Deputy The EFF shall consist of the following Secretary, Treasurer and not more structures and organs: than 10 (ten) members who will hold office for two years. 1) National People’s Assembly which elects the Central Command Team 8) The Branch Chairperson and (CCT). Secretary of both the Women’s Command and the Youth Command shall serve as ex-officio members of the Branch Command Team Page 50 of 64 Economic Freedom Fighters 1ST National People’s Assembly Resolutions: People’s Power for Economic Freedom
9) The Regional Peoples Assembly shall receive political report from the chairperson, organisational report 11) PROVINCES from the secretary, and financial report from the treasurer 1) For purposes of EFF structures, the country shall be divided into the 10) A BCT shall meet fortnightly and following provinces: the Branch General Assembly shall meet every three months. a. Western Cape
10) The Regional Peoples Assembly b. Northern Cape,
1) Each Region shall hold a Regional c. Eastern Cape Peoples Assembly once every 3 (three) years. d. KwaZulu
2) The Regional Peoples Assembly shall e. Natal, Free State, receive political report from the
chairperson, organisational report f. Gauteng from the secretary, and financial g. Limpopo report from the treasurer h. Mpumalanga 3) The Regional Peoples Assembly shall adopt a program of action i. North West
4) The Regional Peoples Assembly shall 2) The provincial headquarters will be elect the Regional Command Team determined by the Provincial comprising of a Chairperson, Deputy Command Team of each respective Chairperson, Secretary, Deputy province. Secretary and the Treasurer, and 10 ( Ten) additional members. 3) The CCT may from time to time alter the number, the boundaries or 5) The Regional Officials shall be the names of the Provinces. responsible for the day to day running of the organisation, including the The Provincial Peoples Assembly regional secretary of the Women’s Command and the Youth Command 4) Each Province shall hold a Provincial Peoples Assembly once every 4
6) The Regional Chairperson and (four) years. Secretary of both the Women’s Command and the Youth Command 5) The Provincial Peoples Assembly shall shall serve as ex-officio members of receive the political report from the the Regional Command Team, chairperson, organisational report from the secretary, and financial
7) The RCT shall meet once per month report from the treasurer
8) RCT shall have a Regional Co- 6) The Provincial Peoples Assembly shall ordinating Command which shall be adopt a program of action the Top 5 plus 3 Members of the RCT.
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7) The Provincial Peoples Assembly shall 5) The National People’s Assembly shall elect the Provincial Command Team receive, discuss and adopt the political comprising of a Chairperson, report, organisational report and Deputy Chairperson, Secretary, treasures report Deputy Secretary and the Treasurer, and 16 (Sixteen) additional 6) The National People’s Assembly shall members. adopt or amend the constitution, policies and program of action. 8) The Regional Chairperson and Secretary shall serve as ex-officio 7) The National People’s Assembly shall members of the PCT be held every five years and elect the President, Deputy President, Secretary 9) The Provincial Chairperson and General, Deputy Secretary General, Secretary of both the Women’s National Chairperson, the Treasurer Command and the Youth Command General and 35 additional commissars shall serve as ex-officio members of to the Central Command Team the Provincial Command Team. 8) The provincial chairperson and 10) The PCT shall have a Provincial secretary of the PCT shall serve as ex- Coordinating Command which shall officio members of the CCT be composed of the Top 5 plus 6 Members of the PCT. 9) The National People’s Assembly shall adopt the Peoples Declaration.
11) The PCT shall meet once in two months 13) CENTRAL COMMAND TEAM (CCT)
12 The National People’s Assembly Powers
1) The National People’s Assembly 1. The CCT shall be made up of six (NPA) shall be the highest decision officials plus 35 additional members. making body of the EFF. 2. The CCT shall be the highest decision making body in between National
2) The NPA shall be constituted of Peoples Assemblies and shall have the delegates, and 90% of these shall be authority to lead the organisation, from branches of the EFF. subject to the constitution, resolutions and decisions of the National Peoples’ 3) The National People’s Assembly Assembly Steering Committee shall be responsible for the smooth running of 3. The CCT shall set up a number of the Assembly. necessary bodies and Standing Sub – teams on different levels in order to 4) The National People’s Assembly shall guide the overall work of the EFF. adopt the credentials, program, rules, procedures and guidelines of the 4. The CCT shall implement the policies, assembly resolutions, directives, decisions, and
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programs enunciated by the National b. The Deputy President, who People’s Assembly. shall:
5. If necessary, the CCT shall have the i. together with the right to co-opt not more than 3 President, constitute the (three) members. In addition, the presidency of the EFF; CCT can invite anyone to form part of the CCT so as to provide expertise ii. Assist the President or professional advice. whenever such assistance is required; 6. The CCT shall meet at least once in three months. The CCT is the iii. In the absence of the principal organ of the National President, represent the Assembly and shall consist of the EFF and, in the presence following: of the President, deputise;
a. The President and Commander iv. Represent the EFF at in Chief of the Economic important domestic and Freedom Fighters, who shall: international forums.
i. Be the political head and c. The Secretary General, who commander in chief of shall: EFF and the leader of the house at National i. Be a fulltime official of People’s Assembly the EFF based at its meetings; Headquarters;
ii. Make pronouncements ii. Convey, communicate for and on behalf of the and articulate key EFF outlining and decisions of the EFF to explaining the policy or all the structures of the attitude of the EFF on EFF; any question; iii. Be ultimately responsible iii. Present to the National for record keeping and People’s Assembly a correspondence within comprehensive statement the EFF; of the state of the country, continent and iv. Present to the the political situation National People’s internationally; Assembly and the Central Command iv. Under the overall Team a supervision of the CCT, comprehensive orient and direct the statement of the activities of the EFF. state of the organisation and the administrative situation of the EFF
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v. Administer the Team and the War correspondence of Council; the CCT and the ii. Perform all tasks Provincial Command incidental to c(i) Teams, and send out above; notices of all iii. Represent the EFF assemblies and at such domestic and meetings at the international forums national level as may be requested by the President d. The Deputy Secretary and/or the Central General, who shall: Command Team. f. Treasurer General, who shall: i. The deputy secretary general, who shall be i. Be a fulltime official of a fulltime official of the EFF based at its the EFF based at its Headquarters unless Headquarters, unless decided otherwise by decided otherwise by CCT; the CCT ii. Assist and deputise ii. Be the chief custodian of for the Secretary the funds and all property General whenever of the EFF; the situation so demands; iii. Be ultimately responsible for all fundraising iii. Assume activities carried out in responsibility for the the name of the EFF; general administration and iv. Be responsible for staff of the EFF. compliance with all the iv. Take and present the financial laws and minutes of the regulations of the National People’s Republic of South Africa Assembly, the CCT or any other territory; and the War Council v. Be answerable for the employment of competent staff necessary e. The National to fulfil his or her Chairperson, who shall: obligations. i. Preside over and chair all national gatherings and meetings, including meetings of the 14) The War Council National People’s Assembly, the 1. At its first sitting after being elected, Central Command the CCT shall elect 9 (nine) members
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of the CCT who , together with the capitalist oppression of women to an President, Deputy President, Secretary end. General, Deputy Secretary General, National Chairperson, and Treasurer 5. Moreover the purpose of the General shall constitute the War Women’s Command is to promote Council of the EFF. The 15 member the rights of women and in this regard War Council shall: to remove all impediments to their development as full and equal (i) Be responsible for the members of society. day-to-day activities of the EFF; 16) The Youth Command
(ii) Ensure the proper and 1. The EFF Youth Command shall be timeous implementation the youth wing of the Economic of CCT decisions; Freedom Fighters which organises youth people under the banner of (iii) Submit a report of its Economic Freedom in our Lifetime work to the CCT in and primarily guided by the EFF’s respect of its activities constitution, policies and resolutions. between CCT meetings. 2. The Youth Command shall be autonomous, yet integral part of the 15. The Women’s Command EFF, in that it shall have its own constitution, programs, activities and 1. The EFF Women Command shall be campaigns and be a legal persona the women’s wing of the Economic 3. The membership of the EFF Youth Freedom Fighters which organises Command shall be open to young women under the banner of people between the ages of 14 and 35. Economic Freedom in our Lifetime 4. Its main objective shall be to rally and primarily guided by the EFF’s young people behind the vision of constitution, policies and resolutions. economic freedom in our lifetime. 5. It must champion, defend and 2. The Women’s Command shall be advocate for the rights, interest and autonomous, yet integral part of the aspirations of young people EFF, in that it shall have its own 6. It will serve as a political breeding constitution, programs, activities and ground for the young people of the campaigns and be a legal persona EFF 7. It shall organise the young
3. Every woman who is age 18 years and intelligentsia in the institutions of above can be a member of the higher learning, professionals, Women’s Command. employed and unemployed youth in 4. Its main objective is to raise the townships, villages, suburbs and political consciousness of women into informal settlements and, everywhere understanding that patriarchy is a else where young people are found
societal ill and to this end must organise and mobilise women 17) EFF STUDENT COMMAND collectively with men if needs be, into ending patriarchy by putting the The Student Command shall be patriarchal, white-supremacist, established as an autonomous structure existing in all institutions
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of higher learning and post- 3) The leading bodies of the EFF at all secondary education and training levels are elected through institutions democratic consultation.
4) The whole organisation must observe unified discipline: The 18) RESPONISBILITIES OF guiding principle is that at all times COMMAND STRUCTURES: the individual is subordinate to the a. The responsibilities and organisation, the minority is duties of all Command subordinate to the majority, the structures should be clearly lower level is subordinate to the stated in the constitution. higher level, and the entire EFF is b. Should include a provision subordinate to the CCT. that says that members who
miss 3 meetings in sequence 5) Leading structures of the EFF at without sound apologies every level shall periodically report shall be removed from the on their work to EFF assemblies as Command Teams. well as general assembly meetings and shall constantly listen to the c. No member of the EFF shall be allowed to occupy opinions of the people both inside two organisational positions and outside the organisation and to at the same time. Once this end accept their supervision. elected to the other EFF members have the right to and structure, the member is must be encouraged where necessary automatically no longer a to criticise the EFF, its leadership member of the structure and or any component part thereof they served before, and the at all levels and makes proposals to General Assembly shall be them. If an EFF member holds the only platform to replace different views with regard to the the vacated position. decisions or directives of the any component structure of the EFF s/he is allowed to reserve her/his 19) MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL: views and has the right to skip the immediate leadership channels of 1) The CCT shall put in place efficient command and report directly to mechanisms on membership systems and higher levels, up to and including the membership renewal. CCT and the President of the EFF. It is essential to create 20) Organisational Principle of the EFF political conditions that are conducive to both centralism and
1) The entire organisation is democracy; discipline and freedom; accountable to the National People’s unity of will and personal ease of Assembly. mind.
2) The paramount organisational principle of the EFF is democratic 21) Central Tasks of EFF Structures, centralism, mandate and Formations and Other Entities accountability, and selflessness
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1. EFF structures, formations and other purity of the organisation’s entities must give prominence to the ranks. revolutionary politics of the organisation and develop the style of 22) CODE OF CONDUCT AND melding theory with practice, DISCIPLINE maintaining close links with the people and practicing criticism and 1) The CCT shall adopt a Code of self-criticism. Conduct which will be the EFF’S guide on how issues of discipline 2. The main tasks of the component and conduct are internally handled. structures, formations and other 2) The code of conduct shall be entities of the EFF are: consistent with organisational principles of the EFF contained in a. To lead EFF members and the the Constitution. broad revolutionary masses in studying, internalising and Adopted by the Economic Freedom applying the political line of Fighters National People’s Assembly, 16 EFF; December 2014 b. To give constant education to EFF members and the broad Signed by revolutionary masses concerning the race/class ______struggle and the struggle between the two lines and to lead them in fighting resolutely President against the class enemy; (Commander in Chief President) c. To propagate and carry out the policies of EFF, implement its decisions and fulfil every task ______assigned by the CCT; Secretary General d. To maintain close ties with the masses by being located on the ground and constantly listening to their opinions and their demands;
e. To conduct robust ideological struggle within the EFF so as to keep the organisation’s life vigorous;
f. To take in new EFF members, enforce discipline, constantly consolidate the EFF Assembly Declaration membership strength and to get rid of the rot and take in new energy so as to maintain the
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Economic Freedom Fighters Declaration of the First National People’s Assembly, 13 – 16 December 2014
We the delegates of the National People’s Assembly, gathered at the University of the Free State, Mangaung, representing more than 500 000 members of this vanguard of the Economic Emancipation Movement from all the provinces of South Africa in towns and townships, informal settlements
and rural areas We affirm our historic mission which is the attainment of economic freedom in our , workplaces and campuses, come together lifetime which we shall fulfil by any means under the theme of People’s Power for necessary. This historic mission is anchored Economic Freedom. by the seven none-negotiable pillars which express our socialist revolutionary vision in We meet at the University of the Free State the immediate, expressed in our primary whose accommodation of the EFF First program, the EFF Founding Manifesto; Peoples Assembly represents a strong statement of institutional autonomy and 1. Expropriation of South Africa’s land academic freedom which are everywhere without compensation for equal being undermined. We gather in Mangaung, redistribution in use. the centre of the country and a home of the
Economic Emancipation Movement. We 2. Nationalization of mines, banks, and gather in the name of the interests of the other strategic sectors of the people who are the dejected and neglected economy, without compensation. masses, the unemployed youth and adults, 3. Building state and government the security guards and domestic workers, capacity, which will lead to the the petrol attendants, farmworkers, abolishment of tenders. mineworkers, civil servants and professionals of all kind to unify them 4. Free quality education, healthcare, across classes, races and geographic spread houses, and sanitation. for people’s power for economic freedom. 5. Massive protected industrial We proclaim that out of relative obscurity, development to create millions of we as this generation have discovered our sustainable jobs, including the mission and will do everything in our power introduction of minimum wages in to attain our mission. order to close the wage gap between the rich and the poor, close the apartheid wage gap and promote rapid career paths for Africans in the workplace.
6. Massive development of the African economy and advocating for a move from reconciliation to justice in the entire continent.
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7. Open, accountable, corrupt-free potential wealth. In the immediate, the government and society without fear EFF shall lead radical and militant of victimisation by state agencies. protests to Mines to demand that Mines should provide basic services in their Millions of our people remain homeless surrounding communities. Added to and landless in the country of their own protests to government institutions, the birth and majority of the land remains in EFF should lead protests directly to the hands of beneficiaries of colonial huge corporations to demand specific apartheid land theft. We shall embark on concessions and programmes that will land occupation struggles to end uplift the conditions of our people. homelessness and landlessness amongst the poor, including fighting against all We call for localisation and that all the the evictions of farmworkers. goods and services consumed in South Africa should be locally produced. Retail We shall remain robust and militant in stores must be compelled by law to our revolutionary parliamentary strategy procure their goods and services locally which is based on ensuring the radical and government should be pushed to transformation of the institution in the only buy locally produced goods and interest of the people. Parliament must services. become a parliament of the people and pass laws that shall lead to a just and As acclaimed in the Founding Manifesto truly equal society. The EFF shall ensure of the EFF, the EFF will openly that parliament holds the executive associate with and lead programmes that accountable in terms of the usage of allocate land to landless people and state resources and that every single cent masses. We will never stand by and is used to better the lives of all, watch when our person are congested in particularly the poor. informal settlements and nearby land is unoccupied because it is owned by those In line with the mission of attainting who stole it. We will also encourage and state power to further the agenda of provide strategic support to economic freedom, the EFF will contest communities that seek to engage in the local government elections with the small scale agriculture, and other forms view to win them as a step towards total of co-operatives in order to alleviate the takeover in 2019 general elections. extreme levels of poverty that define our Every municipality, every ward and very people. community shall be contested with credible candidates approved through We reaffirm our call on Morocco to end robust consultations with the people. In its occupation and colonisation of the immediate, all outstanding EFF Western Sahara. In the same breath, we branches in all wards of South Africa call on the Apartheid state of Israel to must be launched, and EFF must exist end its racist occupation of Palestinian everywhere; in farms, workplaces, lands, and join on the call for the campuses, villages, and all informal international isolation of the Israel settlements. through boycotts, divestment and sanctions until they end the occupation. We as delegates commit to fight for the Furthermore, we join the international immediate criminalisation of base call on the release of the Cuban Five and erosion, profit shifting and transfer lifting of the trade embargo on the Cuba pricing, because these are phenomena and its people. We also call on the that are robing South Africa of massive democratisation of Swaziland, and for Page 59 of 64 Economic Freedom Fighters 1ST National People’s Assembly Resolutions: People’s Power for Economic Freedom
the Boycott of the dictator Ian Khama through this whole process look out for of Botswana who is using state power to each other. In this way we shall express suppress revolutionaries and all who are our revolutionary outlook and critical of his government, including his collectivity while at the same time restriction of EFF leadership from boosting the revolutionary morale of visiting Botswana. membership and society as whole.
We conclude our assembly on the 16th We, as delegates are committed to of December 2014 which is the day of building working class unity in South reconciliation, and thus express Africa, where all progressive working ourselves that genuine reconciliation is class formations should unite for the only possible with the uncompromising struggle for socialism, and attainment of attainment of the seven cardinal pillars the 7 cardinal pillars. Working class as expressed in the EFF Founding unity is however not mechanical, but Manifesto. That South Africa shall only unity behind a common political be a just society under the socialist programme, which in the immediate vision of Peoples Power for Economic should include removal of the ruling Freedom. party from political office through elections and all other popular means We reaffirm our unity as a movement, possible. and vow to guard against staff riders, and unrepentant opportunism which We shall ensure to cover every corner of seeks to hold this revolutionary South Africa, village to village, township vanguard movement at ransom. Our to township, suburb to suburb, kraal to unity shall be continuously shaped in kraal, city to city, and everywhere where struggle, with a full commitment to there is human life to speak and preach democratic processes as expressed in the the message for economic freedom in constitution of the EFF. EFF remains our lifetime. We will use all modes of the hope and aspiration of the poor and transport to get to where we should unemployed and we shall defend this to preach the message of economic the end. freedom. We will use bicycles, donkey- carts, cars, lorries, trucks, buses, trains, Political education of all our members planes, helicopters, ships, boats and all shall be the priority of the movement at forms of transport spreading the word all times, because we accept the for economic emancipation in our observation by Thomas Sankara that a lifetime. soldier without political and ideological training is a potential criminal. A fighter We will use all channels to communicate without rigorous and active political and outcomes of this historic National consciousness becomes vulnerable to People’s Assembly and ensure that all counter-revolutionary capture and progressive forces are mobilised behind lumpen radicalism. Our radicalism shall socialist programme for economic always be based on revolutionary freedom in our lifetime. We are a discipline. This is way beyond what any generation of economic freedom single individual acting alone, or even a fighters and we shall overcome! loose affiliation of individuals could ever achieve. We shall always strive to thrash out our differences, be faithful to the revolutionary ideas of the organisation through good and bad times and Page 60 of 64 Economic Freedom Fighters 1ST National People’s Assembly Resolutions: People’s Power for Economic Freedom
Closing Remarks by President -CIC Julius Sello Malema
Viva Free State Viva! Viva Western Cape Viva! Viva Kwazulu Natal Viva! Viva North West Viva! Viva Northern Cape Viva! Viva Mpumalanga Viva! Viva Eastern Cape Viva! Viva Limpopo Viva! Viva Gauteng Viva! Amandla! Long Live EFF Long Live! Mayibuye iAfrika! High Moral! High Discipline!
“Thank you very much. Comrades, delegates from all the branches of the EFF and the leadership of the provinces and regions, our elected officials and the top six and the Central Command Team. I stand here on behalf of all of you to accept the responsibility given to us by the general membership of this organization through the delegates to this important National People’s Assembly. “I want to congratulate you for a well- behaved conference and delegates who carried themselves in a manner befit of being a member of Economic Freedom Fighters. All those who were chanting and getting agitated during, elections, we forgive them because we know that elections maybe emotional and many of us are coming to the elective conference for the first time and we have learned a lesson and will perform better next time. “You have disappointed the enemy; the enemy thought we will not arrive at this point. Some of the journalists, particularly
Page 61 of 64 Economic Freedom Fighters 1ST National People’s Assembly Resolutions: People’s Power for Economic Freedom the Independent Newspapers, have written “All of us, we must continue to observe the that we have collapsed the conference discipline of the organisation. We are all because of nominations. That is not true. new in politics, and therefore, we are not For sure, you were attending a conference going to be impatient with each other. We of the EFF at Luthuli House, but not at are going to take each other through, for Mangaung. There was never a point where tomorrow we are going to be better this conference of the EFF stops; members politicians. have got a right to stand up particularly “To all those who have accepted when they got confused and they needed nominations and lost, and those who did clarity, particularly when they were standing not get threshold and to all those who up on point of orders. It is one of the declined the nominations, it is your call to procedure of the conference. We forgive remain members of EFF. There is no one Independent Newspapers, next time you’ll who is going to deal with you for having know that point of order is part of accepted nomination or declined procedure, not chaos. nomination. You exercised your democratic right. As for Members of Parliament that they will be removed from parliament on the basis of “We are told people have burned our berets having accepted or declined the nomination, outside and t-shirts. But what we saw only all of us here whatever we did here in the images where the Daily Maverick has happened within the rules and the written that berets are being burned at an democratic principles of the organisation. EFF conference is a picture of people “This was one of the perfect conferences I burning the list. I don’t know if you can’t ever attended since my participation in differentiate between the beret and the list. I politics at an early age. Comrades, those said when I open that we must forgive you who still see us as coming from the ANC, because you don’t know what you are doing you are backdated. Don’t see us like that. and the picture just demonstrated that you We are members of the EFF. It doesn’t don’t know what you are doing because matter where we come from. That is our there is no red beret or a t-shirt burned by previous life. We are born again. We don’t members of our organisation and therefore belong to the ANC. We don’t come from you must stop misleading our people. The the ANC. We forget those pasts which we only thing we saw was a delegate burning a are not proud of and we are beginning a duk of the EFF. A well-captured picture of new journey which all of us will be proud the delegate from the Western Cape and you of. When we meet there, there is no winner the leadership of the Western Cape will go and there is no loser; the EFF has won. and counsel that delegate to appreciate what “We must all celebrate because we have was going through that delegate. passed a test and we must tell them we’ll “All those who burned the lists because you continue passing those tests. We are the were not agreeing with them and you didn’t only solid, leftist organisation in South want them in your possession, you have a Africa which doesn’t only philosophise right to do so. These were not congress about social revolution but put it into material and therefore they cannot be practice and fight white monopoly capital. confused to be EFF lists. If I don’t want We are the only one who are engaged in that this list, I can do anything I want with it struggle. We are the only party that has because it’s not the material of the pronounced socialism in the parliament of conference. You have not burned the the Republic of South Africa, and for that material of the conference and therefore you fact, we are the first since 1994. There has have no reason to panic. never been a party in the parliament of the
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Republic of South Africa which openly clinics or roads. With regards to Goldfields associates with socialist politics. It is the in Gauteng, which belongs to Baleka Mbete; EFF which has done so and that alone there must be a programme to close down changes the political landscape of South those mines until those shares are given to Africa. You are making history and you the community. must be proud of yourselves. “The time for the revolution is now. And “We are going to occupy the unoccupied we must not postpone it. The revolution land because we need that land. For us to doesn’t require people who want to be clean eat, we must have the land. For us to work, and behave like they are better than others. we must have the land. And don’t write Marx has concluded these matters. Ours is letters to the head office asking us to come to implement those ideas of Karl Marx. So and occupy the land. We will occupy where we must stop trying to rewrite what is we come from, either from Zone 1 in already written by Marx and Lenin and all Seshego, if there’s an open land we’ll go and ideologues which came before us. We are occupy it in my branch. You must go and saying we associate with their struggles and do the same in a branch where you come their ideologies and it is time for us to put from. You must be part of the occupation those into practice. Theory without practice of land everywhere else in South Africa and is meaningless. In the EFF both theory and those who get into trouble with the law, the practice must come together. And if you go EFF must intervene. We are going to and practice what you have not read, you are establish a solidarity fund where we are very dangerous because you’ll create wrong going to raise money to bail out those who things. Read first. The documents of the get arrested for occupying the land in South EFF are there: the Founding Manifesto is Africa. We are not playing, we mean there, and the resolutions of the National business. The story of the land has been People’s Assembly will be made available to with us African people for a very long time all the branches. Read the, internalise them, and therefore we must not postpone it any know them by heart, you must know those further. It starts now. We are taking what Resolutions, the Constitution, the Code of rightfully belongs to us and if that means Conduct in the same way you know your ID death, so be it. All of us must continue with numbers and don’t refer all the time when that revolutionary programme. you are asked about this animal called EFF. “Every time you are marching to “All of us, we must go and work for this municipalities, you are blocking the roads, organisation. 2016 is coming. We don’t you are burning tyres, but you’ve never know what is going to happen. But what we blocked a mine where you come from. Why know is that the ANC will not be in power are you not blocking the mines and demand in Tshwane, in Johannesburg, in Ekurhuleni, that communities benefit from those mines? in Nelson Mandela. That’s what we are sure Let me give you the priorities of the mines of. There won’t be a government of the we must occupy and block: all the mines ANC there. There won’t be a government belonging to Patrice Motsepe. They must be of the DA there. To those who come from first ones to be blocked followed by the these regions, you must start acting like ones owned by Cyril Ramaphosa. Those are leaders, you must start preparing yourselves the people who have sold us out. They are as councilors and mayors. You must behave eating today in our name and they forgot in a dignified manner and show your about us. Any mine that has a high profile community that you are ready to take BEE, that mine must be occupied and that’s government in those municipalities. We when we must tell those mines to take the must show people through municipalities money of the BEE partner and put it into that we are ready to be a government of Community Trust or to build schools, South Africa. We must take some
Page 63 of 64 Economic Freedom Fighters 1ST National People’s Assembly Resolutions: People’s Power for Economic Freedom municipalities and govern them in a way that disagree don’t wish other away because you will impress the whole of South Africa. don’t have any other home except the EFF. Then we will know come 2019, we are the Salute! government of South Africa. “We don’t want to postpone this thing of governing for a long time. Now that we are going to govern, you are going to be at the forefront of that struggle and ensure that the people of South Africa get a government which will deliver to them; a government that will create a quality society; a government that gives them proper houses; a government that delivers quality education; a government that makes health accessible to all including rural women; a government that builds the roads; a government that provides reliable sanitation and electricity; and a government led by reliable South Africans who are loyal and patriotic and not just leaders. “We love South Africa more than we love EFF. That’s why we formed EFF; it was out of the love of this country and therefore we want the best for the people of South Africa. “All of us, let us go home in peace. Let us go and have a relaxed festive season. It has been a hectic year since January at Nkandla till today here at Mangaung, nonstop. We deserve a break. We have worked very hard. South Africa should be proud of all of you. “Now there is an arrangement which leadership will whisper to you in January, which I’m going to engage in privately this December so that I represent you very well. I will not tell you now. I say it’s a private function. Let me go and rest and have my private arrangement. All of you must wish me well in your villages and everywhere else you are because it’s a very small function and it’s for close family members because fighters we cannot accommodate all of you. “Please drive home safely and look after each other. Don’t destroy one another. You must have a fighter’s back in the same way a fighter will have your back. We must protect each other. We must be prepared to die and be buried next to each other because of the love we have for another. Even when we
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