{"id":13879,"date":"2014-05-06T07:56:35","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T07:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13879"},"modified":"2014-05-06T07:56:35","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T07:56:35","slug":"eff-will-nationalise-the-ocean-abalone-perlemoen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13879","title":{"rendered":"EFF will nationalise the ocean, abalone, perlemoen"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13880\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13880\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/paulsen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13880\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/paulsen-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Paulsen\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/paulsen-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/paulsen.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13880\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paulsen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Economic Freedom Fighters would nationalise the ocean to ensure South Africans benefit from the country&#8217;s natural resources, the fledgling party&#8217;s Western Cape premier candidate said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to end the limited access people have to natural resources,&#8221; Nazier Paulsen told the Cape Town Press Club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will nationalise the ocean, the abalone, the perlemoen,&#8221; he said, adding that it was unconscionable that national government awarded fishing quotas to international companies instead of poor local communities.<\/p>\n<p>Paulsen, a 47-year-old lecturer, said the EFF&#8217;s aims included total gender parity, free education up to post-graduate level, minimum farm workers&#8217; wages of R5000, and creating a provincial construction company that would provide 100,000 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The company would be set up to end the corruption-prone practice of contracting private builders to construct social housing, and would &#8220;end the spacial divide&#8221; that persisted 20 years after the advent of democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Paulsen also wants to end\u00a0the apartheid spacial divide being managed by the Democratic Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to DA leader Helen Zille as the &#8220;the madam&#8221;, he said her provincial executive had not only failed to create &#8220;a single job&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic Freedom Fighters would nationalise the ocean to ensure South Africans benefit from the country&#8217;s natural resources, the fledgling party&#8217;s Western Cape premier candidate said on Friday. &#8220;We need to end the limited access people have to natural resources,&#8221; 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