Is your vote informed by ideologies, frustrations or loyalty? Why will vote EFF: 1. More than two-thirds of our population is under 35. Out of the parties contesting the forthcoming elections, the EFF is the best placed party to represent the majority of this sizeable demographic whose aspirations and frustrations will heavily impact on the future of our country. 2. More than 70% of unemployed South Africans are under the age of 35. Parties currently in power at national and provincial levels have failed to address growing unemployment, particularly among our youth. Given its core constituency, the EFF will best be able to agitate for jobs for young people and to keep this at the top of the political agenda. 3. We are often told that our economic fundamentals are sound and that radical changes to our policies will result in loss of investor confidence, the fight of capital, sluggish economic growth, the weakening of our currency, etc. But we already have all of these despite our “sound economic fundamentals” and inequality, unemployment and poverty continue to spike. A good electoral showing by the EFF will invigorate the debate about our economic policies and will oblige us to find solutions that really do address our systic crisis. 4. The party of Albert Luthuli, Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela has declined to the party of Marikana, Nkandla and Gupta. The ANC will be around for a while in ruling positions and will correct itself, but this will only happen when it faces real electoral preassure that threatens the interests of its core stakeholders. The EFFs rapid growth and popularity show that it is the party best able to provide such electoral pressure as it is the party most likely to take away votes from the ANC. 5. Till now, the ANC has been able to occupy the moral high ground because of its leading role in the ant-apartheid struggle and it has been able to intimidate the official opposition in parliament where it often uses the discourses of race and of struggle to shield its deficiencies or to pursue its interests. A strong EFF in parliament will help to change these primary discourses since the EFF cannot be dismissed as racists or as beneficiaries of the apartheid era, this will help to expose and to concentrate on the real issues at hand. 6. Until we know who funds our political parties, our very parliamentary system is prone to, and promotes corruption. Parties in power at national, provincial & local levels allocate tenders to companies that in turn whether explicitly requested or are silently expected to do so, contribute to the ruling parties coffers. It is happening, we just do not know the extent of it. Neither the ANC nor DA reveal their lists of funders. To dismiss the EFF as an electoral option because of the corruption charges against its leader is to be hypocritical about the corruption inherent in the parliamentary political system and to which the two major parliamentary parties subscribe. Long live the EFF
Posted on: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 12:13:50 +0000
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