EFF Address on the Presidency Budget Vote: CiC Julius Malema Wednesday, 23 July 2014 Honourable Deputy Speaker, 1. We would like to congratulate members of the ruling party for showing support to the people of Palestine. 2. We expect that the Ambassador of Israel to South Africa should leave his country because we cannot turn a blind eye when those who were with us during the struggle period are encountered with difficulties. 3. This coming Saturday, the 26th of July 2014, the Economic Freedom Fighters will be celebrating its 1st anniversary. The 26th of July marks exactly 1 year since we opened the National Assembly on what is to be done in Soweto. 4. Many people underestimated the emergence of the EFF, and had ruled out the struggle for economic freedom. 5. Ordinary people from all across South Africa gathered to say that enough is enough, and declared that we need to take the struggle forward, now on a different platform. 6. When we started, all political parties imitated everything we did because the EFF is innovative and leader of creativity. 7. These political parties will continue to learn from us and will copy many things we do as a Movement, and we are really inspired because imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. 8. We did so because we believed that truly radical and militant economic transformation should be pursued through a different platform, not through the liberation movement which failed to economically liberate the people of South Africa. 9. We said on the 26th of July that the EFF is Government in Waiting, and if there is anyone who still doubts that today, that person needs closer medical attention. 10. The EFF will be government of South Africa and those who record history should pay closer attention to what we are saying so that when we are government, they can replay this moment and be reminded that we did say that we are government in waiting. 11. We currently have representation in the two houses of this Parliament and all the Provincial Legislatures. 12. After the 2016 Local Government elections, the EFF will be represented in all the Councils of Municipalities in South Africa. 13. Our aim is to consolidate all working class and Left forces behind a truly radical economic transformation programme which will restore the dignity of ordinary South Africans. 14. We are the true and only representatives of the working class in South Africa, and our programme will inspire a radical economic emancipation movement in the whole African continent. 15. We have demonstrated with no resources and very little space and time that behind our ideals are genuine ideals of a future South Africa. 16. Over the past weeks, we have demonstrated to the people of South Africa that we are not just critiques of the current government, but we hold concrete and coherent alternatives to the programme of all political parties in this Parliament. 17. Now, we have rejected all the budget votes of all government departments because we argue that they do not represent anything meaningful for a better and economically liberated South Africa. 18. It appears that all political parties in this Parliament have one programme called the National Development Plan. 19. The NDP is supposed to be a vision for government’s programmes until 2030, and majority of its proposals are not practical. 20. They are not practical because in all fairness, it will never be possible to liberate South Africa unless there is radical change of property relations, wherein the wealth of those who stole it through colonial dispossession is transferred to the majority of the people. 21. Honourable Chairperson, the NDP is not a correct programme to take this country to a development path, and here are the reasons why: a. The National Development Plan does not have protected industrial development at the centre of the development that South Africa should undergo until 2030. b. The NDP’s identified job drivers in the NDP are services, domestic work, and informal sector. This is not a sustainable plan, because to improve the living conditions of mil[truncated by WhatsApp]
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