By Anita Dangazele
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema told hundreds of party supporters in Stellenbosch on Saturday that there can be no job creation without land.
He was addressing supporters at a community meeting in an open field at Khayamnandi in Stellenbosch on Saturday.
“We cannot have jobs if we don’t own the land,” Malema said. He said land comes with factories and textile industries.
“The Western Cape used to have some of the biggest industries but today the textile industry has collapsed. We need to revive the textile industry if we want to create jobs. We need to open factories and industrialise South Africa because without industrialising South Africa there will never be jobs.”
Malema also raised concerns about farm workers’ rights.
“And farm workers must have rights and must be paid properly. No farm worker must be paid with alcohol. All of them must have a permanent job on the farms and those jobs must have pension funds,” he said.
The EFF leader also called on the Coloured and African communities of the Western Cape to unite.
“Comrades, we must build the unity of our people in the Western Cape. We must not allow the DA to divide African communities from Coloured communities because they thrive on division. We are all survivors of the oppression of apartheid, and therefore there is no need for us to see each other as enemies,” Malema told the crowd.
He said it is unfair that prisoners have a better life than those who are not in prison.
“Some even wish to go to prison so that they can get a guaranteed meal. You don’t have water, the prison has got water 24/7. You don’t have electricity, they have electricity 24/7. You don’t have a flushing toilet. In prison there is a flushing toilet. How can prisoners who did wrong to us live better than us who did not do anything wrong to anyone?” he asked.
Pictured above: Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema addressing party supporters in the Cape Winelands, Western Cape on Saturday.
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