SADA manifesto focusses on sustainable job creation

PRAKTISEER

During their recent election manifesto launch held at the Sekhukhune TVET College CN Phatudi Campus in Burgersfort, the Socialist Agenda of Dispossessed Africans (SADA), has promised the creation of permanent and sustainable jobs for the people of Limpopo.

The party was formed in 2015 at Praktiseer outside Burgersfort and it will be contesting in the upcoming general elections in the Limpopo and national ballots.

Lehlabile Kgwedi, SADA General Secretary, indicated that among priorities tabled during the manifesto launch, the party will be gunning for advancing food security through funding of cooperatives and individual farmers.

He promised voters that SADA will improve primary healthcare by allowing a 24 hour access to all clinics across Limpopo Province.

“Other priorities will include the facilitation of issuing of licenses and funding for small scale farming, constructions of provincial roads to simulate rural economy and to end outsourcing in all department and municipalities and absorption of all workers within all entities,” he said.

Kgwedi said the party will end nepotism and corruption in the province and they will also accelerate provision of clean water and sanitation throughout the province.

“We shall also fast track backlogs of all land claims in the province and absorb all graduates funded by Limpopo Province,” informed Kgwedi.

According to Kgwedi, SADA will establish livestock theft unit in all police stations in Limpopo to fight the scourge of stock theft across the province.

Furthermore, Kgwedi said the party will be absorbing all early childhood development centres with the Basic Department of Education in the province and decentralise the feeding scheme programme to give effect to the concept of local beneficiation.

“SADA undertake to develop, consolidate and strengthen the socialist’s ideas of creating a dynamic, radical, progressive and egalitarian society free from the bondage of exploitation, racial discrimination, landlessness, homelessness and inequality. We commit ourselves to protect the rights of society as envisaged by the Constitution of the country and other universal human rights laws. We also commit ourselves to apply any alternative remedy prescribed and guided by legal texts and the rules of natural justice,” he said.

Kgwedi said as part of their objectives, the party is aiming to strive towards the repossession of the land, including the sea, the minerals beneath and the space above the soil.

He said they are aiming to establish the Bank of the People which shall empower emerging entrepreneurs in all sectors of the economy.

“We want to strive for free, compulsory, deco modified and decolonized education starting from the foundation phase until to institutions of higher learning, towards the betterment of the living conditions of our people,” he said.

Kgwedi said SADA is striving towards a socialist agenda that seeks to protects the rights of children, women and workers, and promote a healthy living environment free from crime, abuse, exploitation and uncertainty.

“Our aim is to advance the noble goal of equality and total ownership of all means of production by workers through the law of general application,” he said.