Yesterday marked 29 years since the apartheid government capitulated to pressure for political freedom through FW de Klerk's announcement of the release of political prisoners and unbanning of liberation movements. February 2 also witnessed the EFF's launch of one of the clearest and most detailed election manifestos to be produced in post-1994 SA.
The EFF's manifesto is not just a bucket of empty promises, but a blueprint and a plan of action through which SA will decisively end economic apartheid.
While institutionalised apartheid, segregation and repression partially ended with the removal of the racist National Party and its whites-only government, economic apartheid remains a solid reality in SA. Black people remain landless, they remain on the margins of economic activities and outside of the economic participation that improves lives.
The majority of those who participate in the economy do so as suppliers of cheap and easily disposable labour. Landlessness and joblessness among black South Africans have reached crisis levels.
While focusing on clear, implementable and decisive programmes for all spheres of governance, the EFF's emphasis for the 2019 general elections is on land and jobs.
The EFF's theme for the 2019 elections is "Our land and jobs now".
The emphasis on land derives from the fact that 25 years since the attainment of political freedom, 80% of the population continues to occupy less than 10% of SA's land...