EFF councillors to pay back the money

SEDIBENG. – The new incoming Economic Freedom Front (EFF) councillors have barely been inducted, yet for the next three months they are expected to pay back the money. The EFF’s 826 councillors nationwide need to repay the party for campaigning for the recent local government elections. This was revealed recently.

The councillors will have to pay back 50% of their salaries to the party for the next three months. This is conducted as a recovery measure for the money spent during the local government elections. According to reports the EFF Commander in Chief (CIC) Julius Malema stated on Monday that those who refused to pay, “were stealing from the organisation and would be dealt with decisively.”

The reports stated that Malema wanted to demonstrate to the country that the EFF was not funded by outsiders.</p><p>“You had your faces on the posters, you had T-shirts, and you had all types of support. Where do you think that money came from? Our party is supported and financed by its own members,” he is quoted as saying. The party’s MPs had to tithe 15% of their salaries to the organisation.

Meanwhile the reports further stated that the party’s proportional representative (PR) councillors who came from wards which received less than 100 votes will be instructed to withdraw from councils and would be replaced by ward candidates where the party received most votes. “This principle is aimed primarily at awarding those who worked for the organisation tirelessly‚ and also to avoiding a situation where mediocrity is rewarded.”

The party said that going forward the EFF will apply the same principle during the national general elections in 2019.Members of higher structures of the party would be on the list based on how they perform in their respective constituencies.