Memorandum to Johannesburg Stock of Exchange — 27 October 2015
We the Economic Freedom Fighters, on behalf of all South Africans, young and old, poor and economically marginalized who wish to have access to decent housing, quality free healthcare services and education, quality drinking water, access to participate in the economy, food on the table, decent wage and sustainable employment, demand urgent economic freedom in our lifetime. Economic Freedom in our lifetime means total achievement of Freedom Charter objectives and the 7 Cardinal Pillars for Economic Freedom in Our Lifetime, particularly on transfer of wealth to the ownership of the people of South Africa as a whole.
The Johannesburg Stock of Exchange is recipient of the Economic Freedom Mass Action because it houses substantial majority of capital in South Africa. The JSE’s ownership and control partners are in no way reflective of South Africa population. It is a fact that black people own less than 19 percent of the JSE equity, of which black females own 6 percent.
Less than 10 percent of South Africans’ black and African population, which is more than 90 percent of the population of South Africa, has real and direct ownership and control of shares in the JSE. Historically, businesses and corporations represented in the JSE played a role in the economic exclusion, suppression and subjugation of colonial and apartheid white supremacy. The JSE therefore carries an uncontested obligation to undo the injustice of the past that it continues to perpetuate even to this day.
We come here carrying the burden of the millions of the economically excluded, subjugated, oppressed, exploited and depressed South Africans in the Economic Freedom Mass Action under the leader the Economic Freedom Fighters to make the following demands:
To the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, we demand the following: