EFF TAKES STAND AGAINST SWAZILAND
MBABANE – Julius Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) plans to advocate for sanctions against Swaziland.
Described by Ma-lema as a government-in-waiting, the EFF took a resol-ution in its inaugural elections held in Bloemfontein to call for the democratisation of Swaziland.
As a result, the kingdom is listed in the EFF’s Declaration of the First National People’s Assembly.
Reads the declaration: “We reaffirm our call on Morocco to end its occupation and colonisation of Western Sahara. In the same breath, we call on the apartheid state of Israel to end its racist occupation of Palestinian lands, and join on the call for the international isolation of the Israel through boycotts, divestment and sanctions until they end the occupation.”
“Furthermore, we join the international call on the release of the Cuban Five and lifting of the trade embargo on Cuba and its people. We also call for the democratisation of Swaziland and for the boycott of the dictator Ian Khama of Botswana, who is using state power to suppress revolutionaries and all who are critical of his government, including his restriction of EFF leadership from visiting Botswana.”
Malema is known as the Commander-in-Chief of the EFF.
The EFF is a breakaway organisation of the African National Congress (ANC).
The listing of the kingdom in the Declaration was a response to findings by the party’s Commission on International Relations, which reported to more than 2 000 delegates that Swaziland’s citizens were living under an oppressive system ‘worse than apartheid.’
The conference ran from last Saturday to Tuesday.
It was held at the University of the Free State.
Reporting back to the delegates, Vuyisile Schoeman, a party member, said they should not buy products from the Swazis who invested in South Africa.
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