EFF leader Julius Malema is appealing to Laudium residents in Tshwane to share with the poor.
He said they should help people who live in the surrounding areas such as Itereleng informal settlement and Atteridgeville. Malema was addressing the residents at the Laudium Civic Centre in Tshwane on Sunday, 21 April.
He said there should be a way for residents to share with the poor because if they don't, one day, the people of Itereleng will rebel.
"They're suffering in poverty, and one day is going to push them to engage in anarchy. We need to stop that day by empowering the poor of the poor," he said.
He said that in South Africa, there's extreme poverty and emphasised that in the whole world, South Africa is the most unequal society.
Malema appealed to the residents to identify young people with potential in those communities.
"Don't employ them as shopkeepers. Train them to become reasonable, and sound businesspeople. Let each family in Laudium adopt one child in one family and teach this child business because you are known for business, and you are doing well.
"We are all the same. That's why we were pushed away from town during apartheid."
He said that both Indians and Africans were oppressed by the same people.
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"If we are the oppressed nation, we must speak together and empower one another. I'm appealing to the businesspeople of Laudium to adopt children and mentor them and pay for their school fees," he said.
The EFF leader said the community must adopt a family in Itereleng instead of giving them food parcels worth R2 000 monthly.
Malema said that a prisoner or a rapist has water, lights, and flashing toilets in prison, but the people of Itereleng don't have that.
The EFF leader also called for the promotion of KZN police commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi to the national position so that he can fight criminals even in the Cape Flats.
He said that rapists in South Africa must be exposed, and their names be circulating on the internet.
Resident Goolam Ebrahim said: "Crime in Laudium is unbelievable, and police are doing nothing. They arrest criminals today, and tomorrow, they are out again."
Another resident, Yusuf Ismail of Rise Mzansi, said: "The ANC can't be trusted in South Africa. Don't do coalitions with the ANC."
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