Provinces around the country should expect a significant increase in their legal expenses after the August3 local government elections if the EFF has its way. Party leader Julius Malema, speaking at an election rally yesterday in Sunrise Park, near Rustenburg, in North West, threatened provinces with litigation if they tried to prevent EFF-controlled municipalities taking over the provision of social housing.Malema promised to haul provinces to court in defence of EFF-controlled municipalities' independence and its "right" to build houses using municipal budgets.Justifying the policy, Malema said millions of South Africans had grown tired of waiting for RDP houses - some of them for 20 years.He said government inefficiencies were to blame for the slow pace of delivery."There are people who say that no municipality can build houses. Well, all EFF-controlled municipalities will build houses for our people."We will build houses from our own budgets. An EFF municipality will work as an independent municipality. "We will not take instructions from the province. If they try to stop us we will take them to court and let the court have the final say," said Malema to about 300 supporters at the end of a three-day province-wide election blitz."Our people live in shacks. They have no electricity, water and toilets. We want to end that. We want to restore the dignity of black people because there is no dignity to be found in a shack."Malema said the EFF would compile new housing lists, with particularly deserving recipients clearly identified. Those who applied first would be at the top of the list.Houses would be delivered in line with the order in which recipients were listed, to eliminate corruption.The EFF's housing plan echoes a call by SA Local Government Association chairman Thabo Manyoni that some functions, including housing, currently held by provinces be devolved to municipalities...