EFF president Julius Malema has sounded the alarm about possible vote rigging.
Addressing a Lenasia manifesto town hall meeting on Sunday, 14 April, Malema said there will be load shedding on election night.
“There will be load shedding at 9pm on 29 May when counting starts because they want us to count in darkness so that they can steal the elections the same way they stole the elections here in Gauteng,” he said.
He claimed that load shedding was man-made and the EFF would end it.
He said:
He continued:
"Immediately after the Rugby World Cup load shedding hit. Look at what they are doing now. They are trying by all means to keep the lights on until the 29th of May.”
Malema said the ANC government needs to fix coal power stations and make sure those stations are used optimally for the benefit of citizens. He said the EFF government would convert home appliances like electric geysers and stoves to use gas.
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He said: “We will do this because we spend a lot of electricity on heating things like geysers. Why do we have electrical geysers when there are gas geysers?
“As part of government intervention to save electricity, we will give our people free gas geysers in exchange for your electrical geysers so that we save electricity. Why should we have electrical stoves? Imagine you remove heating and cooking from the grid, you save a lot of electricity. That will be our immediate intervention.”
Malema reassured the crowd that when the EFF talks about taking land, it means land that is being used and people’s properties.
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He made an example that the state is the custodian of water, but people do not feel less because they do not have papers showing they own water that runs in their taps.
Malema said many people have ideas on how to do farming, but land is expensive.
“Why do you say that if the state is going to own this thing we are going to feel less. No, the land is ours and the property on top of that land is yours. We want to collect all of this land so that unused land is given to those who will use it,” he said.
He emphasised that no one will be moved, and no factories will be moved. Malema also lamented the high crime rate in Mzansi and said that people were forced to join gangs in order to live happily.
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“In our own country, criminals have taken over the streets hence the EFF says we need patrollers who have resources and can defend themselves,” he said.
He said the party would hire no less than 100 000 officers within a year and put them on the streets to ensure safety. “We will not be the kind of government that smiles with criminals. There will be law and order," he said.
He said under the EFF, there will be no informal settlements as all residential areas will be upgraded and have water, electricity and roads.
