DR Mbuyiseni Ndlozi of the EFF has promised residents of this kasi a clinic that will operate 24 hours a day.
He told residents that this will happen only if they vote for the EFF in the upcoming elections.
Ndlozi was speaking during a community meeting held at Green Village, ZCC open space in Soweto on Tuesday afternoon, 27 February.
Residents voiced their grievances to the EFF.
They said they have issues with housing, electricity and potholes, which have been bothering them for years, and even after 30 years of democracy, they still haven’t been attended to.
Slovo Park and Thubelisha residents, who were also part of the meeting, raised issues of infrastructure.
They said their shacks are a mess, waiting for disaster to happen as they remain hopeless.
Ndlozi told the residents that the EFF wants to get rid of tenders and hire thousands of workers permanently.
“Tenders have been there for the last 30 years. Where is the township economy?” he said.
Ndlozi claimed that people who are given tenders use some of the money to benefit themselves and they don't do what is right.
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He said that the EFF government is going to create jobs and empower the township economy.
“In Joburg, we fought for all security guards to be insourced while they were under a tender getting paid between R3 800- R4 500. We removed the tender and hired them permanently, meaning that now they have a pension fund. Not only did we hire more. Their salaries under the government increased from R4 000 to R12 800 and R18 000 per security guard. This shows that the tenderpreneur was taking on average R10 000 to R12 000 from them," Ndlozi said.
He said that as the EFF, they also want to open clinics for 24 hours a day, even on Christmas Day.
“Most of the clinics here close around 3/4. Nurses are as rude as queue marshals. However, our nurses are like that because they are overworked and not paid well.
“When you open a clinic for 24 hours, then the shift will be like the hospitals, meaning that we will hire more nurses and pay them minimum proper wages with benefits. We will have door-to-door nurses who will go around checking on the elders and give them medication."
Ndlozi said that every clinic must have an ambulance, and every ward must have a 24-hour clinic.
The EFF will launch its provincial manifesto on Saturday, 2 March at Dobsonville Stadium in Soweto.
