EFF Freedom Day statement
27 April 2023
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) marks the 27th of April, which is observed as Freedom Day in South Africa as yet another reminder of the shortfalls of the political freedom achieved in South Africa in 1994. It was on this day that all South Africans of all races participated in the first democratic election in our country, yet 29-years later the objective realities of our people remain that of humiliation, poverty, landlessness and inequality.
The EFF is of the firm belief that the declaration of the 27th of April as Freedom Day was premature, because the core objectives of the struggle against colonial dispossession and the Apartheid system have not been achieved. Instead of the democratisation of wealth, the provision of free quality healthcare, education, housing and a corrupt free society, which were the core objectives of the revolution, South Africa is characterised by a false unity based on reconciliation that is devoid of justice.
The negotiated-settlement achieved in 1994, has resulted in racists and white-supremacists being emboldened, because they continue to control the means of production and their only interaction with African people is at the level of Africans being their servants. Our mines are controlled by foreign interests and our economy is manipulated by the elite to serve the political interests of the white-minority.
African children continue to travel long and dangerous distances to receive education, and on too many occasions fall to their deaths in pit toilets, while their white counterparts attend schools with decent