EFF to donate salaries to Solidarity Fund

EFF Members of Parliament, provincial legislatures and councillors will all contribute over the next three months. 

The decision by the EFF comes after President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement on Thursday night that he, the deputy president, ministers and deputy ministers would be contributing a third of their income to the fund. 

The fund, set up to pull money together to fight Covid-19 and limit its economic pain on families, has already raised some R2 billion.

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“The mandatory party levy deducted from our Public Representatives will not be deducted in the period where we will be contributing a third of our salaries to the Solidarity Fund,” said EFF spokesperson Vuyani Pambo. 

The EFF has also called on the government to grant South Africans who cannot afford to make monthly payments due to the lockdown a “payment holiday”.  

It also wants a moratorium on repossessions by the banks and creditors.

“We call for a complete end to evictions from properties and land occupied for residential purposes,” added Pambo.

“We call for a morotorium of lease cancellations of small and medium businesses that had lease agreements with property companies, particularly malls.”