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EFF to discuss education requirement for leaders

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One of the resolutions the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) will discuss during its National People’s Assembly (NPA) is a requirement to have secondary formal training to qualify for a leadership position.

The party are holding their second elective conference which starts on Friday December 13  at Nasrec in Johannesburg, until on December 16.

Earlier this week, EFF deputy president Floyd Shivambu briefed the media at the party’s headquarters in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, where he outlined discussion documents to be dealt with during the Assembly.

Twelve discussion documents on topics including land, the economy and health will be debated during the four-day gathering.

Responding to the motion that the party was becoming elitist in putting the academic requirement forward, Shivambu expressed that it’s important that leaders have an attainment of formal education.

“Post secondary qualification is not elitist. It’s a legitimate view to say that if you want to lead society because you deal with complex issues at least gain some degree of training. Go and check who leads the politburo of the Chinese Communist Party almost all those leaders have PhD’s and that is why China is superior in terms of economic policy and interventions. It’s going to be the biggest economy within the next 5 or 10 years –  because they know what they are doing they’ve got detailed attention to how the global economy is function.”

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