EFF STATEMENT ON CHILD GRANT SUPPORT AND REPRODUCTION
15 April 2016
The EFF reiterates, in no equivocal terms, the statement made by the CIC Julius Malema that child grant support does not lead to irresponsible procreation amongst the poor, black people in particular. Whilst addressing a community meeting in Meadowlands, the CIC took time to explain that the perception that child grant support leads to black people making many babies was not true because black people have been making babies even when they did not have any child support grants.
The CIC explained that poor black people have been making babies even under a government that did not even care about them since colonial times. To say they are making babies in order to get access to the child support grant portrays our people as irresponsible and willing to use children to get access to money from the state.
This idea is also based on a long history of anti-black racism. It is consistent with colonial attitudes that portrayed black people as incapable of controlling their sexual desire, all they know is making babies. This attitude also portrays blacks as people who are defeated by sexual desire, which burns in uncontrollable levels, thus leading to make children en mass.
Making children is a good thing that must not be turned into taboo amongst the poor. The idea that the poor must not make children until they are able to get the money to support them is crude and makes making babies the reserve of the rich. If we were to sustain this logic, in a society where the rich are white and the blacks are poor, it means there will ultimately be more white people in this country than blacks.