Cape Town - Delivery services to poor residents of the Western Cape was the message from the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) during a campaign meeting in Mitchells Plain on Sunday.
The meeting, held in the Portlands sports complex, attracted about 30 people.
The party’s regional co-ordinator, Menzi Manyonga, said they would not only promise, but deliver to those who voted for them.
“We are happy to see the coloured community take a stand, and I want to promise you that the EFF is the way to go.
“The DA and ANC came and made promises and did not deliver, but we are here to make that change.”
Manyonga added that they were disappointed in President Jacob Zuma and his party “as they quickly forgot about the voters after they came into power”.
“He (Zuma) tells the people to vote for him and forgets about those same people five years down the line. We don’t only speak, but we will go to the communities and we will deliver.”
The party was founded in August by ousted ANC Youth League president Julius Malema.
The party’s provincial convener, Nazier Paulsen, referred to the EFF leader as the “commander in chief and president in waiting”, and said they were planning to “take back our mines and banks”.
“We will take back our banks and our mines but we will do it in a clever way and we will provide the people with loans for housing and cars with zero interest.”
Paulsen said if they were to win the Western Cape they would ensure everyone had a house.
“What kind of government does this to its people? It should be illegal for the government to live comfortably and their people don’t.
“When we had the floods here a couple weeks ago where was the government? That was not a natural disaster but a political disaster.”
Paulsen said the party was not an ordinary party but a revolutionary one.
“Normally size doesn’t matter but in a revolution it does, and we are a revolutionary party and we will make sure that there won’t be a person that is unemployed under the EFF.”
Cape Argus