FF Plus promises to scrap 'new apartheid' policies like BEE

The Freedom Front Plus (FF+) launched its 2024 election manifesto in Centurion over the weekend, telling voters it is time to 'restore and rebuild' South Africa.

It lays the blame for the country's 'decay' at the door of an 'incompetent' ANC and, more specifically, the government’s policy of black empowerment, 'which created an ideal breeding ground for everything that went wrong'.

Wouter Wessels is the National Head of Elections for the Freedom Front Plus.

He says initiatives like Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) and Affirmative Action (AA) have not served the purpose of redress and did not empower most people who were disadvantaged under apartheid.

"They actually created a new inequality. An inequality between the politically connected and the majority of ordinary South Africans."

- Wouter Wessels, National Head of Elections - Freedom Front Plus

Wessels says what is needed now is a new type of dispensation with a new type of empowerment 'where skills transfer and the equal access to equal opportunities are promoted'.

The FF Plus promises to 'abolish legislation that discriminates based on skin colour'.

South Africa goes to the polls on 29 May in crucial elections expected by many to be the most transformational since the country's transition to democracy.

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