THE leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Julius Malema, has promised his supporters that the first thing the party will do after coming to power is to demand that the International Court of Justice declare the apartheid debt null and void.
Malema was addressing members of the EFF at a town hall meeting in Midrand on Saturday, 20 April.
He said the apartheid debt owed by Mzansi could be used for the country’s social responsibility programmes.
The EFF leader said the country currently had debts totalling almost R573 billion that it was servicing, and this included the apartheid debt.
“So, if you deduct the apartheid debt from our external debt, we save a lot of money that we can use for our social responsibility programmes,” he said.
Malema also said the party would cancel all student debt at universities.
"Fighters, the biggest mistake that was made in 1994 was to give us RDP houses. Madiba should have given us free education and we should have built our own houses,” he said.
He further said his party had a responsibility to save South Africa.
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"You all know that our population lives in extreme poverty. That 29% of our population lives in extreme poverty. When we started this organisation in 2013, the goal was very simple. We need to overturn the status quo and introduce an alternative,” he said.
Malema also warned that the country’s middle class will be in trouble if conditions do not improve for the more than 37 million people living in poverty.
He said the current trend of inequality in the country was unsustainable.
"Anarchy is the highest form of disorder and if this anarchy erupts in South Africa, anyone who owns a BMW, a Mercedes or anything like that will no longer come to the townships because anyone who owns assets that indicate that they belong to the elite who betrayed the revolution will become a target for attack,” he said.
