EFF leader Julius Malema has called for free, fair, and peaceful local government elections on the 1st of November. The party’s election spokesperson, Leigh-Ann Mathys says the party will sign the Electoral Code of Conduct Pledge for the 2021 municipal elections.
The EFF did not sign the pledge during the signing ceremony on Friday. However, while addressing hundreds of party supporters in Thabazimbi in Limpopo, Malema said the party signed the IEC Code of Conduct.
On his last day of campaigning in Limpopo, Malema started by addressing residents of the Regorogile Township in Thabazimbi. The community is not happy with service delivery by the local municipality.
The area is ruled by the EFF, DA, FF Plus, and the Thabazimbi Residents Association in a coalition agreement.
One of the residents, 30-year-old Kabelo Molefe says the biggest problem is service delivery.
“When you need a job they need money. They tell you that you must provide something so that they can provide you with a job. The service delivery … we suffer with water; we suffer with sewage. Right now, there is no water. If there is water coming from the tap, it is very dirty. The roads are not in proper state.”
Just before Malema took to the stage, Mathys said the EFF was still going to sign the Code of Conduct pledge at the IEC.
The EFF was absent when other political parties signed the pledge on Friday.
“We are busy guys. We hit the ground running. It was not really a snub. All our officials had to go to their provinces to do the election work so we have options to sign that pledge. I mean the EFF ‘serve’ by the Code of Conduct for elections. The problem we have is the ANC that never ever does, and nothing ever happens to them. And then the IEC is the biggest hypocrites. Up to this day, they have never dealt with the vandalism that happens at polling stations; not only in the KZN, even here in Limpopo where two voting stations were shut down in one of the municipalities in for the whole weekend.”
LGE 2021 I EFF campaigns in Thabazimbi in Limpopo:
However, when Malema finally addressed the masses he said they have signed the Electoral Code of Conduct Pledge as they believe in free, fair, and peaceful elections.
“We don’t want to fight. We want peaceful elections. On Friday, we signed the Code of Conduct with the IEC, which we believe in which we have signed as the EFF because only elections that are free from violence will the EFF win. But if we start fighting, the ANC will emerge because of violence. We don’t want to fight. We don’t want blood in the whole of South Africa. We call for peaceful elections.”
Malema says the EFF will win in Limpopo.
“I can tell you now that the enemy is shaken. Mr. Ramaphosa is afraid that the government is going. We are taking everything from them. The whole of Limpopo is the home of the EFF, every house, every street, every corner, mine. In fact, all of them belong to the EFF.”
In the last local government elections in 2016, the EFF got just over 9% of the vote in the province.
EFF leader Julius Malema addresses supporters in Thabazimbi:
[WATCH NOW ?]: CIC @Julius_S_Malema says white people walk confidently in this country because they own the stolen land.
LAND must be returned to its rightful owners so that our people too can walk confidently like owners of this land. #LandAndJobsManje #VoteEFF pic.twitter.com/WiQpMBfJVB
— Economic Freedom Fighters (@EFFSouthAfrica) October 3, 2021
