The Economic Freedom Fighters national treasurer general, Omphile Maotwe, is confident that her organisation will emerge victorious come the 2024 general elections.
Speaking exclusively to Mpumalanga News during her organisation’s voter registration drive for the bi-election taking place in Sabie, Maotwe said the EFF’s support base is growing significantly countrywide, and this could just see them on the driver’s seat in 2024.
“As a matter of fact, the EFF is the only growing political organisation in the country and that is the reason why you have all these other parties ganging up, trying to stop us, because our masses are starting to realise that the promises that came with the ANC have turned to ashes,” said Maotwe.
The EFF silenced many doomsayers, including a number of political organisations, by filling up the 90 000-capacity FNB Stadium during the party’s 10th birthday anniversary.
Thousands of party supporters drawn from across the length and breadth of the country painted the FNB Stadium red on July 29.
Maotwe is also currently serving as the Mpumalanga Provincial Elections Task Force convener.
“You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see that we are growing. Young people are joining the organisation in numbers because they are finally seeing the truth, that is life under the ANC-led government is miserable. The honest truth is that the current government has failed and continues to fail our people,” added Maotwe.
Asked how are they investing in young voters, Maotwe said, “We are giving ourselves time and carefully explaining to young people the importance of exercising their right to vote. We are teaching them that this democracy didn’t come on a silver platter, but through sweat, sacrifice, blood and massacres. We are simply reminding them that they can’t afford to take this thing for granted, because we will wake up one day with the country back to the hands of the oppressor. This way we are trying to remind them of their own history and just maybe it would be enough to get them to vote.”
She said that the EFF Student Command Team is dominating in a number of tertiary institutions of high learning, which she said would help her organisation perform much better in the polls next year.
“Our message is: let us not give back this land to the hands of our former oppressor. The only weapon we have now is by saying, ‘one man, one vote’, and remove the ANC from power,” she smiled.
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