With less then a month to go to the local government elections, EFF leader Julius Malema has called for voters to stop voting with their hearts and to vote with their heads.
Malema, campaigning in Sebokeng in the Vaal yesterday, called on supporters and those from opposition parties, to stop using liberation icon and former president Nelson Mandela as a reason to continue voting for the ANC.
Addressing thousands of supporters in the township, Malema said: "People say they want to vote for the ANC because of their love for Madiba, but voting for the ANC is voting for [Jacob] Zuma and the two are different men."
He called Zuma a stumbling block and said the EFF, if voted into power, would keep true to its word to force the president to pay back the money used for the upgrade of his Nkandla homestead because he had unduly benefited.
Malema said that freedom and prosperity were coming to South Africans.
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"Our land is our identity. We can only go back to basics if we have land. With land, children will be able to go to school.
"The elderly will benefit from vegetable gardens and our people will own land that is rightfully theirs," he said.
He promised hundreds of cheering women that they would receive free sanitary towels.
"If we can distribute free condoms we can distribute free pads," Malema said.
"Thousands of young women are forced to stay out of school because they cannot afford pads. The use of condoms may be a choice but the use of pads is not."
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