The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has put deputy leader Floyd Shivambu in charge of a ‘Coalition Negotiations Team’ that will be guided by a list of demands, including changing the Constitution to ‘realise’ expropriation without compensation within six months, and nationalising the Reserve Bank within a year.

Other conditions include:

  • Creating a ‘State Bank’ in 12 months;
  • Cancelling student debt in 12 months;
  • Creating a ‘State Pharmaceutical Company’ in 12 months;
  • Passing an ‘Insourcing Bill’ in 12 months;
  • Removing Die Stem from the national anthem in 12 months;
  • Opening clinics for 24 hours, seven days a week;
  • Providing free sanitary towels ‘for all’; and
  • Providing free water and electricity for all SASA beneficiaries.

The announcement was made in the following tweet:

The party said that ‘those who have approached the EFF must be prepared to agree and support’ a ‘framework of principles’, and ‘general commitments with deadlines’.

The ‘framework’ consisted of:

  • ‘An appreciation of the EFF’s 7 non-negotiable pillars for economic freedom in our lifetime;
  • ‘Service delivery commitments with timelines particularly on land, jobs, water, electricity, flushing toilets, and care for people with disabilities;
  • ‘Anti-racism – meaning that whatever coalition is an outcome of EFF participation must not reinforce white supremacy and Afrikanerdom;
  • ‘An understanding that the EFF should exclusively govern in all municipalities in exchange of others, and where this happens, there should be agreement on oversight functions given to coalition partner(s);
  • ‘Non-interference in the appointment of municipal managers and all other senior managers;
  • ‘Publication of all concrete agreements reached with coalition partners to avoid a perception that there are secret agreements; and
  • ‘Constant and honest engagement and reports to the people on the progress made on coalitions.’

The election has resulted in a record 66 councils where no party achieved a majority.

The EFF made inroads in several provinces, but failed to keep its third place in the City of Johannesburg, where former mayor Herman Mashaba’s ActionSA took 16.05% of the votes. The ANC got 33.60%, followed by the DA with 26.14%.

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