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2024 ELECTION MANIFESTO
THE EFF
JOBS
As of 2023, the expanded definition of unemployment in South Africa has reached an alarming 42%. This means approximately 15 million people are excluded from meaningful economic participation, with some completely discouraged from finding employment altogether. South Africa has had alarming levels of unemployment since before the dawn of democracy, despite modest economic growth recorded over the years. The South African economy is therefore one of chronic unemployment, deep inequality, and massive poverty.
The EFF government will ensure the creation of millions of decent jobs between 2024 and 2029. This will happen through building state capacity, state-led and protected industrialisation, industrial diversification, the protection of infant and existing industries, the transfer of ownership to black people through subsidies, an increase in tariffs, and state-aided marketing and promotion of South African products internally, across the continent, and worldwide, with a focus on key, progressive, and most beneficial trading partners. The following are key commitments on job creation:
1. The EFF will establish State-Owned Housing and Roads Companies that will deal with the social housing and roads infrastructure backlog. In the short to medium term, this will result in nearly 4 million jobs.
2. The EFF will establish a state-owned security company that will insource all security personnel working in government facilities. This will immediately create 1.2 million sustainable and quality jobs without departing from the existing government budget expenditure.
3. The EFF will establish a state-owned Cleaning, Horticulture, and Landscaping Company that will provide these services to state and public facilities and will lead to over 1 million sustainable jobs.
4. The EFF government will declare multiple special economic zones in various regions of South Africa, clearly emphasising that each investor will gain special economic zone benefits such as tax incentives and factory building allowances if they each employ and sustain a minimum of 2 000 jobs per factory.
5. The EFF government will ensure that a minimum of 80% of the goods and services procured by the state at all levels and at all state companies are domestically produced.
6. The EFF government will ensure that a minimum of 50% of all South Africa’s mineral resources are locally beneficiated, processed and value added to create millions of jobs and create new cities.
7. The EFF government will ensure that all food for local consumption is produced and processed on a massive scale in South Africa. This will happen through the intensification of small-scale farming and agriculture and by giving strategic support to all small-scale agricultural operations, including providing trade routes. All food traders in South Africa will be compelled by law to buy South African food products and to support operations that produce these food products.
8. The EFF government will build sustainable food processing zones that will supply food items to other parts of the world, particularly the rest of Africa, China, Latin America and India. This will lead to the creation of millions of jobs across the entire food chain.
9. The EFF government will help communities in the coastal areas to start agro-fishing corporates and businesses, which will be their main source of income and livelihoods.
10. The EFF government will ensure that all products and goods that contribute to state construction projects are locally produced, barring exceptional cases where there is no capacity to produce locally.
11. The EFF government will ensure the development, protection and localisation of industries which produce basic and daily used goods through import substitution mechanisms. These include:
a. Glasses, cups, plates, spoons, pots etc.
b. Tiles and energy-efficient building materials
c. Furniture, energy-efficient light bulbs and decorating materials
d. Solar water geysers, insulation material and energy-efficient products
e. Washing products and soap
f. Electronics
g. Basic energy-efficient electronics
h. The textile industry including, clothing and shoes, and
i. Agro-processing of food.
12. The EFF government will ensure that small and medium sized enterprises are given strategic support and that legislation is passed to ensure that key industrial inputs and services to big corporates and companies are provided by SMMEs.
13. The EFF government will protect the right of street hawkers and informal traders to trade in a safe and clean environment in all the cities and towns of South Africa without fear of police harassment.
14. The EFF government will prohibit the confiscation of street traders’ goods as a means of enforcing municipal by-laws.
15. The EFF government will build markets and storage facilities for street hawkers and small vendors in trading areas.
16. The EFF government will amend the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA) and Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA) to compel national, provincial and state-owned entities to procure 80% of all goods from local producers and a minimum of 50% from producers of which 50% is owned and controlled by women and the youth.
17. The EFF government will build and support state-owned trading and retail platforms in every municipality.
18. The EFF government will declare the following areas as special economic zones with zero company taxes and a building allowance in exchange for each investor creating 2 000 full-time jobs, paying a minimum wage and pension contributions:
Eastern Cape
a) Butterworth in the Amathole region
b) Mount Ayliff and Mbizana in the Alfred Nzo region
c) Cofimvaba in the Chris Hani region
d) Graaff-Reinet in the Cacadu region
e) Mthatha and Port St Johns in the OR Tambo region
f) Sterkspruit in the Joe Gqabi region
g) King Williams Town in the Amathole region
Free State
a) QwaQwa in the Thabomofutsanyana region
b) Thabanchu in the Mangaung region
c) Deneysville in the Fezile Dabie region
KwaZulu-Natal
a) uMhlabuyalingana in the uMkhanyakude region
b) eDumbe in the Zululand region
c) Utrecht in the Amajuba region
d) Ladysmith in the uThukela region
e) eNquthu in Umzinyathi
f) Umzimkhulu in the Harry Gwala region
g) Scottsburgh in the Ugu region
h) Maphumulo in the Ilembe region
Limpopo
a) Groblersdal in the Sekhukhune region
b) Seshego in the Capricorn region
c) Mogalakwena in the Waterberg region
d) Shayandima in the Vhembe region
e) Phalaborwa in the Mopani region
f) Giyani in the Mopani Region
g) Malamulele in the Vhembe Region
Mpumalanga
a) Bushbuck Ridge and Mjindini in the Enhlanzeni region
b) Marapiane in Dr J.S. Moroka in the Nkangala region
c) Moloto in Tembisile Hani in the Nkangala region
d) Mkhizeville in Mkhondo in the Gert Sibande region
e) Enyibe in Msukalikwa in the Gert Sibande region
North West
a) Kagisano and Taung in Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati region
b) Ramotshere and Ratlou in the Ngaka Modiri Molema region
c) Moses Kotane in the Bojanala region
Northern Cape
a) The whole province of the Northern Cape must be declared a special economic zone with industrial assistance for all companies that create a minimum of 2 000 jobs per investor per area.
Western Cape
a) Cape Agulhas in the Overberg region
b) Beaufort West in the Central Karoo region
c) Ashton in the Cape Winelands region
d) Oudtshoorn in the Southern Cape region
e) Citrusdal in the West Coast region
19. The EFF government will revive and expand industrial zones in Springs in Ekurhuleni, Linksfield and Lanseria in Johannesburg, Randfontein in the Westrand, and Hammanskraal and Bronkhorstspruit in Tshwane.
20. Under the EFF government, township economy equates to township industrialisation, and special tax-free economic zones will be created in populous townships.
21. The EFF government will declare township areas as special tax-free zones in exchange for 2 000 full-time jobs per investor paying a minimum wage and pension contribution per company.
22. The EFF government will pass legislation that ensures a minimum wage of R6,000 across the board for all fulltime workers and will fight to ensure that each of the following sectors accordingly receives the stipulated minimum wage:
a) Mineworkers: R15,872.52 per month
b) Farm workers: R6,349.01 per month
c) Manufacturing workers: R8,253.71 per month
d) Retail workers: R6,349.01 per month
e) Builders: R8,888.61 per month
f) Petrol attendants: R8,253.71 per month
g) Cleaners: R5,714.11 per month
h) Domestic workers: R6,349.01 per month
i) Private security guards: R9,523.51 per month
j) Full-time waiters and waitresses: R5,714.11 per month, and guaranteed tips.
23. The EFF government will introduce three shift system (morning, afternoon, and night) to allow the economy to operate 24 hours, ensure continuous productivity without overworking individual workers, and create millions of jobs,
24. The EFF government will use state procurement as an instrument for driving job creation, meaning that a minimum of 80% of all goods and services procured by the state must be locally produced, and majority-owned and controlled by the people of South Africa.
25. The localisation drive will include all procurement, inclusive of automobiles, electronics, textiles, food and professional services.
26. The EFF government will pass a policy that 100% of the food procured by the state for school feeding schemes, hospitals, prisons, etc. is locally produced by emerging historically excluded farmers, and that a minimum of 50% is procured from women and the youth.
27. The EFF government will put measures in place to ensure that a minimum of 50% of the labour force is unionised and that collective bargaining is prescribed and actively promoted.
28. The EFF government will ensure that a minimum of 50% of all state procurement benefits women and youth owned and/or controlled companies.
29. The EFF government will guarantee ‘one degree one job’ – The EFF government commits to absorb all unemployed graduates and place them into areas relevant to their qualifications.
30. The EFF government will ensure that each individual with a University degree or diploma receives a minimum stipend of R5,000 per month whether employed or not.
31. The EFF government will drive a massive job creation programme by building studios in every municipality for artists to record and produce their work locally.
32. The EFF government will create jobs through local beneficiation.
33. The EFF government will impose a quota of 60% on all shops to sell locally produced goods and products.
ENERGY AND ELECTRICITY SUPPLY (STOP LOADSHEDDING!)
1. The EFF government will ensure the security of electricity supply for at least the next 20 years, emulating successful models like that of China, to foster national sovereignty and sustainable economic growth.
2. The EFF government will invest in repairing the existing fleet of power generation and adopt clean coal technologies to enhance the energy availability factor.
3. The EFF government will work to reduce the electricity demand of major electricity users, implementing strategies that are economically viable and sustainable, including revoking preferential tariff deals that offer below-cost electricity to certain corporations.
4. The EFF government will subsidize embedded electricity alternatives for public institutions such as public health facilities, schools and police stations and households to encourage the adoption of sustainable energy solutions.
5. The EFF government will significantly invest in the transmission capacity to support the increased demand and integration of diverse energy sources.
6. The EFF government will prioritize the affordability of electricity, ensuring that energy costs contribute to sustainable economic development and do not hinder it. The implementation of solutions will take affordability into account.
7. The EFF government will commit to decarbonizing the electricity sector, advancing at a pace, scale, and cost that is feasible and beneficial for South Africa.
8. The EFF government will terminate all existing contracts with independent power producers and halt the roll-out of new independent power producer projects.
9. The EFF government will support the involvement of the private sector in electricity generation, aiming for controlled participation of 30-40% in new generation capacity through a new transparent and corrupt-free procurement process that supports the ownership transfer to the majority of black people.
10. The EFF Government will establish a state-owned mining company to manage coal mines owned by Eskom, ensuring a quality coal supply at affordable prices. This company will also export surplus coal, prioritizing African countries to support their electrification and industrialization.
11. The EFF government will leverage 200 years of coal reserves, implementing carbon-capturing technology, and nuclear energy as the dependable energy for baseload to ensure security of energy supply.
12. The EFF government will expand Eskom’s generation capacity for consistent, dependable, and affordable electricity distribution to all users in South Africa.
13. The EFF government will end the privatisation of Eskom, and consolidate generation, transmission, and distribution as one company.
14. The EFF government will stabilise energy supply by maximally pursuing a mix of energy sources, including clean coal, gas, nuclear and nuclear energy as baseload, and renewable sources like solar, wind, and hydro-energy.
15. The EFF government will direct Eskom to develop an internal substantial renewable energy division to build its own infrastructure, focusing on solar, wind, and hydro-energy, and researching to improve their reliability.
16. The EFF government will provide free electricity up to 200 kWh per month to poor households, ensuring universal electricity access for all households.
17. The EFF government will implement a subsidy program for embedded electricity alternatives to support households and public institutions such as hospitals, clinics, police stations, and schools.
18. The EFF government will establish a direct grant system to encourage the adoption of embedded generation technologies, moving beyond mere tax incentives.
19. The EFF government will oversee regulated submissions from credible electricity generators, ensuring reliability and quality in the energy sector.
20. The EFF government will authorize Eskom to take over the distribution of electricity from municipalities that are unable to manage their Eskom-related financial obligations.
21. The EFF government will establish an independent state electricity economic research institute to conduct research on energy security and support long-term energy infrastructure planning, with its findings being reported to Parliament.
22. The EFF government will commit funding to the re-establishment of Eskom’s research and development capacity, with dedicated focus on training especially in nuclear and coal as core baseload.
23. The EFF government will eliminate all historical electricity debts,
including municipal debts owed to Eskom.
24. The EFF government will eradicate all illegal electricity connections and launch a comprehensive electricity safety campaign.
25. The EFF government will offer solutions, research and infrastructure, and commit resources to the electrification of neighbouring countries fostering regional cooperation and energy security.
26. The EFF government will purposefully invest in the electrification of the entire African continent and will immediately start with the electrification of the neighbouring countries.
27. The EFF government will promote off-grid household and institutional energy solutions, such as embedded generation, to diversify energy sources and increase resilience.
28. The EFF government will introduce a municipal conditional grant aimed at assisting municipalities in implementing hybrid and off-grid energy solutions where they are practical and necessary. This initiative is designed to promote local energy resilience and sustainability, particularly in areas where traditional grid connectivity is challenging or inefficient.
29. The EFF government will cancel all indexed fixed-priced and cost-plus contracts related to coal mining and coal supply to Eskom.
30. The EFF government will compile and publicly release a comprehensive register of all assets belonging to coal mines, including coal reserves.
31. The EFF government will build and improve rail infrastructure around power plants and coal mines to enhance accessibility and efficiency.
32. The EFF government will develop industrial and manufacturing capacity for embedded generation and off-grid solutions, encouraging innovation and self-sufficiency.
The EFF government will forge global cooperation,
33. particularly with the Russian Federation, to establish a nuclear power plant under a sensible power purchase agreement.
34. The EFF government will commit to the completion of the Inga-Dam Hydro Electric Project in the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of a long-term continental solution in partnership with other countries in the region, promoting transparency.
35. The EFF government will engage with strategic partners to build a nuclear power plant in South Africa through a transparent procurement process. This facility is planned to produce between 3000 and 6000 megawatts of electricity, under a 20-year Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) contract. This initiative will not only augment South Africa's electricity generation capacity but also symbolize a significant step towards energy independence and sustainable development.
36. The EFF government will seek to purchase electricity surpluses from neighbouring countries, particularly Mozambique, as a medium to short-term solution.
37. The EFF government will enhance technical capacity by collaborating with China and other friendly nations to repair and restore coal power stations.
PLAN OF ACTION ON EDUCATION AND RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT
EDUCATION AND RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT
1. The EFF government will introduce free, decolonized education for all, incorporating topics pertaining to indigenous knowledge, sovereignty, and economic freedom in the curricula.
2. The EFF government will criminalize all parents who do not take their children to school.
3. The EFF government will ensure that all schools have access to adequate sanitation, and that pit latrines are completely eradicated and replaced with safe and adequate flushing toilets.
4. The EFF government will eradicate all school structures built from inappropriate materials, such as mud and asbestos:
Early Childhood Development
1. The EFF government will make universal provision for early childhood development (ECD) programs and will make it compulsory for children from the ages of three years and and upwards to be enrolled in an ECD for free.
2. The EFF will develop a common ECD curriculum focusing on nutrition programs, book reading and storytelling, and other land-based activities to enhance children’s understanding of their surrounding environment.
3. Under the EFF government, all ECD practitioners will be employed on a full-time basis, with full pay and pension contribution by the government.
4. The EFF government will train an additional 40,000 ECD practitioners by 2027, with a minimum of 50% being women and the youth.
Basic Education
1. The EFF government will increase the use of information and communication technology for teaching, with the aim of achieving universal coverage in computer literacy by 2026.
2. Under the EFF, each learner will receive a tablet loaded with all necessary study material, tutorials, and educational videos.
3. The EFF government will prioritize indigenous ways of teaching, learning, and development.
4. ‘One education system, one country’ – Under the EFF government, all students will fall under one school system, and all matric learners will write the same examinations. The Independent Examination Board (IEB) will be abolished.
5. The EFF will provide scholar transport for all learners who stay more than 2 kilometres from their school and prioritise local taxi associations in the procurement process.
6. The EFF will build hostels where scholar transport is not practical and too costly.
7. The EFF government will establish specialized autism schools, fully equipped with tailored educational resources and trained staff, to provide inclusive and supportive learning environments for children with autism.
8. The EFF government will electrify all schools everywhere by 2026.
The EFF government will provide two nutritious meals a day to all learners in all schools by 2025 and will prioritise local small businesses and farmers in the area.
The EFF government will ensure that there is clean water in every school by January 2026.
The EFF government will provide security and fencing in all schools.
The EFF government will encourage all learners to study mathematics and robotics.
Under the EFF government, all schools will have remedial teachers.
The EFF government will build new schools with technology integration in the classroom, sports facilities, and computer labs to reduce the teacher-to-pupil ratio to 1:30 for primary schools and 1:25 for secondary schools.
The EFF government will ensure that all learning and teaching support materials are delivered in September the year preceding a new school year and will publish a report in November of every year on the delivery of learner-teacher support materials.
The EFF government will launch a year-long #TeachersMatter campaign, starting in 2024, to look at both the professional and personal needs of teachers, including training in soft skills, emotional wellness, financial literacy, assistance with debt management, etc, and train all teachers in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).
The EFF will build high-technology teacher training colleges to equip educators of the future with adequate technological skills to impart to learners.
The EFF government will introduce peer review evaluation for teachers that focuses on development.
The EFF government will launch a #ReturnToSchool campaign in 2025 for all people who have dropped out of school, including domestic workers, sex workers, and girls who have left school.
The EFF government will employ at least two physical education trainers in each school by 2026.
21. The EFF government will build two grass fields, two pitches, and a swimming pool at every school by 2026.
22. The EFF government will appoint two social workers per school by the end of 2025 to provide counselling and career guidance to each school, aiming for this to be achieved by 2025.
23. The EFF government will appoint one nurse per school by 2025.
24. The EFF government will appoint one orthodontist per school by 2025.
25. The EFF government will make it compulsory for every school to have a vegetable garden by 2025.
26. The EFF government will employ one arts and culture teacher per grade in each school by 2025.
27. The EFF government will build computer labs, equipped with internet connectivity, by 2025.
28. The EFF government will build primary healthcare facility in each school.
29. The EFF government will build a library in all schools without libraries by 2026.
30. The EFF government will incorporate 'career guidance' as a mandatory subject in the high school curriculum for all high school learners.
31. The EFF will build new special schools by 2026 with technology integration in the classroom and sports facilities.
32. The EFF government will introduce modules about different disabilities and practical lessons on inclusion.
33. The EFF government will provide safe and accessible transport for children with disabilities.
34. The EFF government will provide various types of mobility, technological, and human aids for all pupils with disabilities.
35. The EFF government will provide sanitary towels to all learners in public schools immediately.
36. The EFF government will introduce indigenous languages as the foundation of the education system in all provinces.
37. The EFF government will re-introduce gardening as an extra activity after school.
38. The EFF government will launch a countrywide literacy campaign to equip all citizens with the basic skills to read, write, and count so as to enable them to become more knowledgeable about all aspects of their lives and increase the literacy rate to 98% by 2025.
39. The EFF government will introduce basic sign language lessons to be taught to all learners.
40. The EFF will introduce comprehensive Adult Education programmes and guarantee educational access by adults who could not finish school for one reason or another.
41. The EFF government will ensure that there are sufficient toilets for the number of pupils in every school, in line with the learner to toilet ratio of 1:25.
42. The EFF government will ensure that all schools have a dedicated science laboratory from which learners will perform experiments by 2026.
43. The EFF government will ensure that all schools have a gym fitted with sporting equipment so as to promote physical activity and a healthy lifestyle.
44. The EFF government will ensure that all schools have a library with free internet access by 2026.
45. The EFF government will offer music lessons in all schools so as to improve the cognitive skills and stimulate all learners.
46. The EFF government will ensure that all schools have musical and orchestral equipment by 2025.
47. The EFF government will provide two nutritious meals for all learners throughout the year (including school holidays).
48. The EFF government will build more classrooms, so as to ease overcrowding.
49. The EFF government will develop personalized strategies which will prevent students from dropping out of school.
50. The EFF government will improve the literacy, numeracy levels of learners in all public schools by promoting a culture of learning from grade R.
51. The EFF government will provide additional learner and teacher support materials and training from Grade R to Grade 12.
52. The EFF government will provide first additional language workbooks to all learners from Grade R to Grade 12 each year.
53. The EFF government will improve the capacity of educators by creating opportunities for professional development so as to enhance teaching skills.
54. The EFF government will make obtaining a learner’s driving license a compulsory subject for all learners in the Further Education and Training phase (Grade 10-12) or for learners who have turned 16 years of age.
55. The EFF government will make history a compulsory subject.
56. The EFF government will introduce buddy/peer tutoring in schools to take advantage of positive peer pressure influence.
57. The EFF government will introduce smart classrooms which use digital equipment such as laptops, interactive whiteboards, and teaching screens by 2026.
58. The EFF government will build libraries in schools that will be accessible to nearby communities in order to encourage a culture of reading by 2026.
59. The EFF government will appoint scholar patrols for each school.
60. The EFF government will blacklist all teachers who sleep with learners, and their names will be made public.
Higher Education
1. The EFF government will introduce free, decolonized education for all, advancing issues of indigenous knowledge, sovereignty, and economic freedom in education.
2. The EFF government will increase the use of information and communication technology for teaching.
3. The EFF government will pass a law that will zero-rate all Educational Apps and content on all gadgets, such as computers, laptops, tablets, and phones.
4. The EFF government will make it compulsory for all learners to pursue post-secondary education and training at universities, universities of technology, and TVET colleges. This will be made possible through state assistance and massive expansion of vocational training and education.
5. The EFF government will cancel all student debt, reintegrate all students who were excluded on the basis of fees, and give certificates, diplomas, and degrees to all students who passed and were denied their qualifications because of outstanding fees.
6. The EFF government will establish a centralized higher education registration system so that students are not required to fill in their details and register more than once.
7. The EFF government will provide free higher education until a first degree for all and will provide scholarships.
8. The EFF government will introduce an annual scholarship to take 10,000 students to go and study at the best universities in the world, including scholarships to study for postgraduate qualifications.
9. The EFF government will provide free accommodation for students at institutions of higher learning and will quadruple the number of rooms available by 2026?, including the use of hijacked and government dilapidated buildings.
10. The EFF government will provide two warm meals per day to each student at institutions of higher learning by 2025.
11. The EFF government will allow all students to travel for free on public transport, provided they carry their student card, by 2026.
12. The EFF government will place a price cap on food sold at all institutions of higher learning by 2025.
13. The EFF government will establish a free 24/7 clinic at each institution of higher learning by 2026.
14. The EFF government will provide free learning materials at all institutions of higher learning by 2026.
15. The EFF government will require each institution of higher learning to have a counsellor for every 1,000 students by
16. 2026.
17. The EFF government will make all institutions of higher learning differently-abled friendly by 2025.
18. The EFF government will require each campus to insource all staff by the end of 2024.
19. The EFF government will require each campus to have campus security by 2025, with a sexual crimes’ unit, more than 70% of employees of which must be female.
20. The EFF government will provide free sanitary towels at all institutions of higher learning immediately.
21. The EFF government will provide each student residing off campus with forty gigabytes of data per month by 2025.
22. The EFF government will increase the intake at institutions of higher learning at both universities and TVETs by 20% annually.
23. The EFF government will synchronize the goals and needs of the economy with the number of places available at each institution of higher learning.
24. The EFF government will connect all institutions of higher learning to high-speed fibre networks by 2025.
25. The EFF government will provide each student with a laptop by 2025.
26. The EFF government will fast-track the digitalization of institutions of higher learning according to annual targets.
27. The EFF government will reopen all nursing colleges that have been closed and will open five new nursing colleges by 2027.
28. The EFF government will reopen all teacher training colleges that have been closed and will open five new teacher training colleges by 2027.
29. The EFF government will require all institutions of higher learning to provide learning materials in the three most spoken languages where the institutions are located by 2026.
30. The EFF government will require all institutions of higher learning to teach 50% of all courses in a South African language besides English and Afrikaans by 2026.
31. The EFF government will require 10% of all academic publications in the country to be written in a South African language besides English and Afrikaans by 2026.
32. The EFF government will require each university to offer Swahili Studies as a degree by 2027.
33. The EFF government will establish a digital library which will buy the rights to every academic publication that has ever been published so that all students can access them free of charge.
34. The EFF government will require each university in the country to offer degrees and courses in coding, computer hardware development, artificial intelligence, robotics, the internet, and biotechnology by 2026.
35. The EFF government will require each TVET to offer courses focused on computer hardware and coding by 2026.
36. The EFF government will provide scholarships to students to study abroad, specifically focusing on degrees and courses which are not provided in South Africa or that are of strategic importance or relate to national security.
37. The EFF government will require each medical school in the country to provide courses in traditional medicine by 2027.
38. The EFF government will establish an agency to place each final-year student in an internship program by 2026.
39. The EFF government will establish a satellite campus of the University of Witwatersrand’s School of Mining Engineering in Rustenburg by 2026 which will focus on mining and mineral beneficiation.
40. The EFF government will establish a satellite campus of the University of Limpopo’s School of Physical and Mineral Sciences in Phalaborwa by 2026 which will focus on mining and mineral beneficiation.
41. The EFF government will establish a satellite campus of the University of Pretoria’s Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences in Ehlanzeni by 2026 which will focus on agriculture and agro-processing.
42. The EFF government will establish a satellite campus of the University of Free State’s Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences in Thabo Mofutsanyana District Municipality by 2026 which will focus on agriculture and agro-processing.
43. The EFF government will establish a satellite campus of the University of the North-West’s School of Agricultural Sciences in Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality by 2026 which will focus on agriculture and agro-processing.
44. The EFF government will establish a satellite campus of the University of Cape Town’s Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment in ZF Magcawu District Municipality by 2026 which will focus on renewable energy.
45. The EFF government will establish a satellite campus of the University of Johannesburg’s Department of Mining and Mine Surveying in Sekhukhune District Municipality, which will focus on mining and mineral beneficiation.
46. The EFF government will pay a once-off grant of R1 million to all black graduates pursuing doctoral studies at accredited institutions, including overseas students, by 2027.
47. The EFF government will introduce a scholarship for people with disabilities to incentivize doctoral studies among them.
48. The EFF government will build one medical training school per province.
49. The EFF government will clear all historical debts of students, including NSFAS debt owed by graduates.
50. The EFF government will build Agricultural Technical and Vocational Education and Training to ensure food stability of the country and introduce short courses like poultry farming, pig farming, goat farming, and vegetable farming that goes with basic business management.
51. The EFF government will have a central application approach for all categories of institutions of higher learning to make one application for each category of institution.
52. The EFF government will make the central application website free and not require the user to have data.
53. The EFF government will transform the curriculum to include African literature, African sources.
54. The EFF government will establish student residence units in all TVET colleges.
55. The EFF government will intensify the building of on-campus residences so that students are not forced to reside in unconducive spaces.
56. The EFF government will close off-campus residences that are unconducive and unsafe to live in.
57. The EFF government will guarantee that every certified student housing facility is designed to be accessible and accommodating for individuals with disabilities.
58. The EFF government will blacklist all lectures who sleep with students, including in exchange of marks, and their names will be made public.
59. The EFF government will ensure that all classrooms, lecture halls, and university spaces are conducive for students living with disabilities.
60. The EFF government will create a more inclusive accreditation process, where students will be involved in the process of student housing accreditation.
61. The EFF government will establish residential clinics to ensure easy access to primary healthcare for all students.
62. The EFF government will release academic records for all students, to allow graduates to be able to search for employment and bursaries without hindrances.
63. The EFF government will establish more post-graduate funding initiatives for postgraduate learners.
64. The EFF government will ensure that post-graduate funding is expanded to cover food and accommodation.
65. The EFF government will provide self-defence classes for all students.
66. The EFF government will provide adequate transportation for all students.
67. The EFF government will provide protection services for all student campuses.
68. The EFF government will ensure that NSFAS upholds its mandates.
69. The EFF government will ensure the stabilisation of NSFAS and improve its administrative system to enable smooth application.
Research and Development
1. The EFF government will triple the amount of research funding available by 2026.
2. The EFF government will improve the remuneration and working conditions of lecturers and professors and encourage them to continue with teaching and research and not take up administrative posts in private or public institutions.
3. The EFF government will heavily invest in research and development and will heavily invest in and subsidize technological and scientific innovations and discoveries.
4. The EFF government will support and subsidize technological innovation which leads to the development and manufacturing of a South African automobile (car), computer, tablet, phone, and other world-class technological innovations.
5. The EFF government will build a specialist technology university or institute whose primary focus will be technological innovation.
6. The EFF government will use existing capacity to provide high-speed and quality broadband to all schools and institutions of higher learning in South Africa.
7. The EFF government will allocate more funding to conduct research on GBV, HIV/AIDS, TB, and diabetes. (Consider using "HIV/AIDS" for consistency and accuracy).
Issued by the Economic Freedom Fighters, 10 February 2024. Full PDF can be read here.
