EFF STATEMENT OF ANC ABUSE OF STATE RESOURCES IN MARIKANA

07 January 2016

The EFF condemns ANC's abuse of state resources in desperation to find relevance in Marikana. The building and handing over of houses in Marikana by the Department of Human Settlement was turned into an ANC build up programme towards its rally. This leaves no difference between party and state, a phenomena characteristic of dictatorships and despotic governments.

This handing of houses is a desperate attempt by the ANC to find relevance in a community in which they have presided over a crime against humanity. It is an attempt to silence the legitimate cry of the Marikana workers for justice and compensation which government has failed to deliver on. To this day, the victims of the Marikana massacre are neglected by government; no one can say what is happening to the widow, orphans and the injured, if they have bread on the table, money to educate their children or if they had any Christmas at all.

The ANC government has once again colluded with Lonmin to silence and erase the memory of the Marikana massacre because the land upon which houses are built is also donated by Lonmin. The EFF knows that the very tender process toward building the houses has benefited ANC corrupt and politically connected ANC business people.

There is no amount of building houses that will erase the fact that those who presided over Marikana are still in government today. Cyril Ramaphosa, Nathi Mthethwa, and Suzan Shabangu were all rewarded with cabinet posts. The delivering of houses is clearly not genuine and it seeks to further mobilize the Marikana community against the victims of the massacre who are not even beneficiaries of the project.

Minister Lindiwe Sisulu says the building of houses is in response to the Marikana tragedy, yet none of the Marikana victims has been compensated or given any houses. What is clear is that the houses are used to mobilize for ANC support since they are handed over in a build up programme of the ANC Rally. There is no worse immorality and corruption than this insensitive and opportunistic act by the African National Criminals.

For this reason, we call on the people of Marikana to reject the ANC both in relation to the rally and in the 2016 local government elections.

Statement issued by the Economic Freedom Fighters, 7 January 2016