Minority Front Policies

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More visible policemen/policewomen on the beat.
Better salaries and more improved working conditions for police officers.
More patrol vehicles.
Increased resources for Community Police Forums.
Reinstatement of the death penalty for serious offenders including rapists and murderers.
Transform laws to favor victims more than criminals.
Fast track transformation of the Justice System.
Motion for standalone Rape Law in SA

Support any initiative to create real jobs within the next five years, thereby reducing unemployment, poverty and crime
Minority communities of South African origin must be beneficiaries of job creation initiatives
Minorities must not be sidelined through unfair application of affirmative action policies.

Affordable school fees through increased subsidies
Employ more teachers to reduce pupil: teacher ratio
Improve school conditions to create a conducive environment to enhance the quality of education
Provision must be made for schools to cater for children with disabilities
Empower School Governing Bodies to strengthen community relations
Abolish schools classification/ questionnaire system
Tertiary education must be accessible to all, more FET’s
Government bursaries for needy students must not be race based
Introduce school nutrition to all schools
Funding must be provided to ECD (Early Childhood Development) programs and facilities in communities
Race based quotas for tertiary institutions must be scrapped.

Ensure, through legislation, that all South Africans, irrespective of race, sex or creed, are able to practice and promote their religion and cultural tradition freely
Land must be made available for place of worship
Provision must be made to ensure that eastern languages of minorities are taught at schools where the need exists
Language teachers must be permanently employed like all other teachers.
Coastal space must be allocated for sea worship.
Religious holidays must be accommodated.

Pension and grant applications must be speedily processed
Increase social grant limit in keeping in with the inflation – R2000 – for 2014
The Child Support Grant must be extended, up to 18 years of age
Pensioners and grantees living below the breadline, irrespective of where they live, should enjoy free basic services
The means test should be revised, to include women married in COP
All pensioners should qualify for their pension in respect of their spouse’s income.

Good environmental governance, information system and compliance monitoring and enforcement of various legislation and regulation will lead to sustainable utilisation and protection
MF believes in the “Polluter pays principle, rights of access to information and environmental justice for the people
Industries need to clean up their technology and follow the precautionary principles w.r.t Air Quality
People must be educated about the environment to make empowered decisions as role players.

HIV/Aids must be made a notifiable disease
KAB theory: knowledge to change attitude which will change behavior is the key to eradicate this scourge
One stop – crises centres to be set up in all hospitals to counsel victims of rape, affected and infected persons
Train more people for home-based care
Design a hospice model of care
Invest more money in research locally to find a vaccine to cure HIV/AIDS.
Give more scholarships to study TB & HIV/AIDS

We must change institutions and policies to eradicate poverty
We need to prioritise key issues and do preventative, performance based budgetary
Set up a well-coordinated, multi sectoral, socio-economic integration policy (social cohesion)
We need to utilise indigenous, cost effective knowledge, especially rurally
Urban poverty needs specific poverty reduction efforts e.g. job creation – setting up institutional mechanisms for poverty eradication programs.
Reduce the gap between the rich and poor
Do not adversely include people in the economy.

Black is a generic term and in the constitution it refers to African, Coloured and Indian
Sunset clause of 2014 must be implemented.
AA must be scrapped or in the least suspended for the next 10 years to achieve NDP 2030.
Stand up and be counted in our fight to protect MINORITY RIGHTS
Ensure that no minority groups with roots in South Africa should be marginalised or sidelined through any policy of government
Ensure that minority rights, as enshrined in the country’s constitution is protected
Ensure the establishment for a minority affairs ministry
Ensure the establishment of a Minority’s Commission.

BBBEEE must be implemented as per sound SCM principals
Indians are classified black as per constitution
Fight against unfair quotas at university, affirmative action implementation with all economic development programs and policies which side line minorities.

Last updated 16 September 2014