EFF vows to march to Kleinfontein again if it remains exclusive to Afrikaners

KLEINFONTEIN - The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) said it would not hesitate to march to the whites-only settlement of Kleinfontein again if the community remains exclusive to Afrikaner people.

The party has wrapped up its protest after marching to the settlement to call for government to take action against its segregationist polices.

Kleinfontein is a community located on a 900-hectare privately owned land in the east of Pretoria, where only Afrikaner people are allowed to live.

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The EFF has questioned why such a place still exists more than 30 years into democracy.

While Kleinfontein's community leaders usually make themselves available to engage with political parties interested in the settlement, that was not the case on Friday.

It is understood that police advised Kleinfontein's representative to avoid interacting with EFF marchers to prevent any potential clashes.

So the thousands of EFF protesters picketed outside the Afrikaner settlement and handed a memorandum of demands to the City of Tshwane.

EFF chairperson in Gauteng, Nkululeko Dunga, said that the settlement's existence undermined democracy.

"We can never allow an area to be a white-only area where black people are only subjected to sweat, where black people are subjected to slavery but can not reside here."

Kleinfontein's population continues to grow and is now home to more than 600 households.