EFF leader Julius Malema.
EFF leader Julius Malema has called for R17 500 minimum wage in the South African mining sector.
Red berets leader said this during his party’s Workers Day celebration at Temba Stadium in Hammanskraal highlighting that mine workers risk their lives to retrieve precious metals however their salaries are too low and don’t reflect their hard work.
He also urged people not to use their emotions when voting. “29th May, that’s the day we are making history, that’s the day Gauteng will be taken out of the hands of the ANC. So 29 May when we go to vote, we don’t want to use our emotions, we don’t want to use our hearts, we will use our minds. In Hammanskraal, where criminals are not arrested it must end on the 29th of May, that is the appointment you must make with yourself so that you must say even if they win, it is not because of my vote and even if we struggle you must not regret that they won with your vote,” said Malema.
Earlier, EFF commander in chief Malema took a swipe at President Cyril Ramaphosa saying that he is a whiteman trapped in the blackman skin who loves white persons more than black people.
He said this during the EFF’s election campaign in Verulam, northern KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday.
In promising better governance ahead of the much-awaited EFF manifesto, Malema encouraged the community of n Verulam to vote for the EFF and remove the ANC and its President Ramaphosa from power.
He also labelled Ramaphosa’s administration poor, corrupt, incompetent and failing to accelerate service delivery to the people. The EFF leader rubbished rumours that if the ANC lost power people would lose their R350 social grants. “The EFF is not going to stop the R350 grant, we are going to pay you according to your qualification. If you don’t have matric, you’ll remain getting the R350, from grade 12 upwards you’ll get R2000. When you get your first degree, you’ll get R5 000 and R6000 for your Honours degree,” Malema said.
“Because we cannot be given R350 the same way. To go to school you must be paid, it must mean money because they don’t give you a job, they must give you money. If they don’t want to give you money, then they must give you a job. They say go to school but when you come back, they don’t give you a job and there’s nothing for you when you come back from school.”
Malema addressing the red beret during his party’s Workers Day celebration at Temba Stadium in Hammanskraal.