The party says South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) grant recipients should not be paying for municipal services as they already rely on the government to feed them and will therefore enforce this motion forcefully after the conference.

EFF Provincial Secretary, Malefane Msimang, says the party will discuss the possible resolution of having debtors removed from blacklists and be free of debt in their next national conference and they hope this resolution might become a government policy.

"We’ll be sponsoring some of those resolutions moving forward towards the national conference. Maybe ultimately, it will become a government policy," Msimang says.

Meanwhile, the University of the Free State political analyst, Dr Sethulego Matebesi, says the party's proposed policies are realistic to a certain extent and that extent would be if the party manages to be in power. However, the reality of the EFF becoming the ruling party is far-fetched, as the party still needs to prove itself.

"The EFF has potential. Some of these policies resonate with the majority of South Africans, even beyond racial lines," Matebesi says. He also says the EFF is battling to have an outright majority in municipalities and that is where the party needs to show its dominance.

Matebesi notes that the EFF has played a significant role in shaping politics.

"You may blame them for being radical, disruptive or whatever. But one thing they have gotten right is determining the discord, the narrative of politics in South Africa - to the extent that there have been consequences with some of the issues they have raised in the past. "

The EFF is holding its 3rd People's Assembly in Bloemfontein for three days starting on Friday, 4 November 2022.

OFM News/Bambatha Giko