“We are expecting the commander-in-chief to talk about corruption, unemployment especially from the youth and education in South Africa is still not … - Hlengiwe Mkhaliphi

If people did not vote for us on that basis, why did these parties not win the elections?

We wanted to find out whether we should form an NGO or civil organisation to participate in the country’s politics, and then we agreed that we should form a political party called Economic Freedom in Our Lifetime, which ultimately became Economic Freedom Fighters

Under apartheid, this exploitation was magnified to a grotesque degree. Apartheid policies entrenched their subjugation, ensuring their labour was extracted under conditions of extreme racial and economic disparity