1. MINORITY FRONT RIGHTS

• The protection of minorities and groups is always built on one principal: The absence of discrimination and inequality.
• Minorities are groups of people who are numerical less with respect to the population, but not a subordinate group.
• Minority groups posses specific ethnic, religion or linguistic characteristic.
• Minority rights are human rights entrenched by various world leagues, convention and organization e. g. The United Nation and the League of Nations, Minority rights, therefore are basic declaration of justice.

2. WOMENS’S RIGHT

• Women must be empowered in all government and private sector initiative must include women in decision making. Therefore, women must play an instrumental role in politics and the economy to help shape the future of our nation.
• We believe that the true principle of democracy is based on active participation of women in decision making process.
• Opportunities available must be shared equally amongst women, irrespective of race, status linguistic characteristics and religion.
• The progress laws regarding women must not be cosmetic in the constitution but must be put into action by the police and justice system.
• The MF’s women’s League wishes to enhance the status of women in rural communities and actively doing so.
• There are many Bills that still have to ratified and the MF will continuously negotiable for women to receive equal advantages, status and as their male counterparts.
• The MF has set up abused desks in various centers to help women with regards to domestics violence, rape, literacy, job creation, counseling, mentoring etc.
• MFWL will ensure that all budgets are women and child friendly.
• A widow’s grant must be established to provide a safety net.

3. ABORTION

• The Termination of Pregnancy Bill gives a women control over her body.
• The choice is that of the individual, determined by her circumstances and beliefs.
• We acknowledge the proper medical grounds which abortion is advised and is legal to protect the mother.
• However, matters that must be campaign focus are age, increase in awareness and knowledge of the body and promotion of protective and preventive methods of contraception.
• We advocate the use of educational material, condoms to prevent unwanted teenage pregnancies and the spread of AIDS.
• We also respect moral and cultural values or norms are upheld by certain communities on this subject and do not wish of offend him.
• Counselling must be given to mothers’ who have undergone an abortion

4. HEALTH CARE

• We advocate medical aid for all employees offered by employers to include more genetic disorders.
• It must be mandatory for all business and employers to keep first aid kits on the premises.
• Health services must unite and thereby become efficient and effective, hence the NHI is supported.
• The distribution and allocation of funds to be properly managed in urban and rural areas. Special emphasis should be placed on urban health care because the concentrated work force is urbanized. Therefore, South Africans cannot afford an epidemic because a healthy nation leads to a healthy economy.
• Health care professional must be highly trained and attained positions on merit. They must not be over-worked and underpaid for professional services rendered as an effective healthcare system will combat dread of disease and deliver good health Care in South Africa.
• We must train more health professionals locally and ensure reasonable ensure same lodging conditions for rural community service.
• We must remove red-tape for South African medical interns qualifying abroad.
• We must review clause (41) the certificate of need for health facilities.
• Government must build more medical schools.
• Government must go the route of e-health for rapid awareness.
• Health Courts are supported to fast-track medico-legal claims.
• Complementary medicine must be taught in our medical schools curriculum.
• A Health Safety Council should be established.

5. CHILDREN’S RIGHTS

• The Children’s Act must be enforced.
• Community based and workspace centers should be provided for children in need of alternate care.
• Children-hospitals must be established to provide free health care to children.
• No children should be in prison or polices cells. Alternate detention centers with proper health facilities, counseling and support service must be provided.
• Special safety must be set to homeless children, street children, babies abandoned in hospital.
• Free in not affordable education must be given to all children. Early child development programs must be initiated and funded.

6. SOCIAL WELFARE

• Grants must be increased above inflation rate.
• Voluntary services by the community must be encouraged.
• Professional persons at various institutions e.g. Psychologist, social workers must be increased.
• Government funded programmes for aged, frail and handicapped persons must be increased more shelters, food and health care should be provided for poor people
• Child Support Grants must be phased out to prevent unwanted teenage pregnancies.
• The pensionable age for women should 55 years and for men 60 years.
• Pension and grant application must be speedily processed (SASSA)
• Pensioners and grantees living below the breadline, irrespective of where they live should enjoy free basic services – MF wants the Older Pension Bill implemented and budgeted for.
• The means test should be revised.
• All pensioners should qualify for their state pensions in respect of their spouses income.

7. EDUCATION

• Education must be free or affordable but compulsory. No child should be denied educational opportunities on the grounds of poverty.
• State must provide basic services to all schools.
• School fees must be affordable and parent and S.G.B. negotiate.
• The government must allocate more funds to improve teaching conditions (PPN)
• Schools governing bodies should encourage parental involvement in the child’s education.
• Teacher redeployment should be fair and free from racial bias.
• Teacher retrenchment should stop, teachers should be put on permanent staff. The closure teacher training colleges and centers should be reviewed.
• Language teachers should be increased in all schools to protect our vernacular or mother-tongue.
• Employ qualified teachers to reduce pupil: teacher ratio and improve learner outcomes.
• Improve school conditions to create a conducive environment to enhance the quality of education.
• Provisions must be made for school to cater for children with disabilities.
• Tertiary education must be accessible to all.
• Government must introduce state learnerships, grants and bursaries for needy students.
• Expand school nutrition to all schools and such contracts should be given to faith-based organizations.
• A school fee exemption policy for certain circumstances must be initiated.
• We must invest in our children by funding in ECD (early childhood development) programmes and facilities.
• Quintile rankings must be scrapped.

8. RELIGION / CULTURE / LANGUAGE

• Our constitution embraces these in ideology. In practice these principles are neglected. Every group must be free to practice and propagate their religion, culture and language.
• We must promote the teaching of mother-tongue in school to all children.
• We must promote cultural events in school.
• People have right to practice their religion and politics separately.
• Ensure through legislation, that all South African, irrespective of race, sex or creed, are able to practice and promote their religion and cultural tradition freely.
• Land must be made available for places of worship. All monetoriums must be uplifted.
• Language teachers must be permanently employed like all other teachers.

9. CRIME / VIOLENCE

• Crime is rapidly increasing and threatening to destroy the fabric of our democracy.
• The death penalty must be re-instated. The death penalty is not an absolute deterrent but it has the valuable potential to reduce dangerous crime, therefore its potential success must be given an opportunity.
• MF embraces the value of human life, therefore, we cannot protect murderers at the expense of innocent victims.
• Life imprisonment is an alternative but very costly to the taxpayers.
• The death penalty is not a barbaric if carried out in a scientific and merciful manner.
• Rape is an act of aggression, power and punishment to women therefore, serial rapists should have the maximum sentencing.
• Transform law to favour victims more than criminals.
• Fast track transformation of the Justice System.
• Better salaries and more improve working conditions for police officers.
• More patrol vehicles.
• Increase resources for Community Police Forum and neighbourhood watch to strengthen their oversight.
• Victim – offender mediation programmes.
• Massive public awareness and education on crime by media, schools, Universities, corporate companies, etc.
• The police force is only human, therefore they cannot be overworked and must be counseled by a psychiatrist and chaplain from time to time.
• It is senseless, we believe, to keep prisoners in prison without attempting to transform their heart and character.
• Intense, rehabilitation must be implemented whilst in prison.
• Violent criminals must not be granted bail or probatory sentences.
• Punishment must be meted out with dignity and mercy to fit the crime, the criminals and his / her circumstances.
• Aggravating factors are poverty, unemployment, drugs and alcohol abuse, mental illness, lack of recreational facilities. Etc but these are no excuse to justify anti social behaviour.
• More money must be allocated for forensic studies.

10. JUSTICE SYSTEM

• The Justice System should be made accessible and affordable to all people
• Legal Aid fund for women to test their rights in court must be put in place
• Justice System must be totally transformed to clear case backlogs.
• Justice system must be free from political interference.
• E-courts are supported.

11. INFLATION

• Price control on primary necessities
• Taxes should be reduced on staple foods or these should be zero-rated.
• Free trade should be encourages – increase economic growth
• Excess food in our country , should not be dumped but given to needy institution and properly identified people e.g street children

12. ECONOMY

• We believe in a free market economy
• SMME development programme must in place to encourage home industry development to generate income.
• Government must assist micro enterprises for funding and mentorship and incubator programmes
• We must develop local production of manufactured goods.
• We need to increase the number of women in the formal business sector.
• We need to stop migrant labour because this disempower our workers and their families.
• Government needs to popularize cooperatives and people- friendly business entities.

13. JOBS

• MF has a program in place for job creation opportunities and security e.g SMME projects e.g. home industries, to train and sustain people.
• Priority must be given to rural learning centers to equip people with various skills to generate income.
• The youth, women and handicapped must be given special consideration.
• Job opportunities must be based on merit for progress because this will enhance fair and positive competition and allay disillusionment.
• Trade union activity must be curtailed with regards to power because too must power has interfered negatively either the workforce, hence the economy.
• Illegal immigrants should be sent back because work should be given to people first.
• Support any initiatives to create jobs within the next the next five years, thereby reducing unemployment, poverty and crime.
• Minority communities of South Africa origin must be beneficiaries of job creation initiatives.
• Minorities must not be sidelined though unfair application of affirmative action policies, hence we should adopt an equal opportunity policy.

14. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION (A. A.)

• The MF calls for the scrapping of the affirmative action policy, 30 years into our democracy
• A policy of diversity, equity and inclusivity should be promoted to address remaining imbalances.
• Employers should understand all issues related to the process through awareness
• Penalties should be implemented if there is discrimination.
• Specific measures have to be in place to end discrimination on the grounds of race and gender, disparity of power between workers and management, urban and rural areas.
• BBBEE must be scrapped as only a few elite’s benefit
• Failure to deliver on empowerment programmes must result in sanctioning mechanism of the Public Services Department

15. HOUSING

•  Affordable housing must be developed for low income groups of all races.
• Shelters must be allocated for the homeless
• RATES inequalities in former black areas has been corrected. Evaluation of properties reviewed, extensively.
• No one should be deprived of a shelter in the grounds of poverty.
• Housing should be a people – driven process then we will see delivery.
• Immediate creation of a data – base of all home seekers.
• No family should be without a home they can call their own
• Increase housing subsidies.

16. PUBLIC RESPONSIBILITY

• South Africa is a land of many people and we who are elected are servants of the people therefore we owe the public an explanation regarding our activities.
• The MF believes in a spirit of co-operation and hence peaceful co-existence for the people, through diplomatic and skillful negotiation.

17. GAY RIGHTS

• The MF acknowledges the existence and reality of gay movements
• We are fully aware of the medical background and nature of gay people and fully respect their inclusion in normal society, thus we assist them whenever necessary to promote diversity.
• Our government should educate the public on the rights of the LGBTQIA+ community.

18. ENVIRONMENT

• Conservation programs must be encouraged by government to promote and protect our beautiful fauna and flora especially for tourism purposes.
• Issues such as thinning of the ozone layer, higher incidence of skin cancer, deforestation, local air pollutants due to acid deposition and industries, desertification, etc. concern the MF.
• We need self control, we need to design and construct ecosystems that are in harmony with human values and biological models available to us.
• Good environmental governance, information system and compliance monitoring and enforcement of various legislations and regulation will lead to sustainable utilsiation 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 the technology and follow precautionary principles.
• People must be educated about the environment to make empowered decisions aw role-players.
• Carbon tax and capping must be implanted to green the environment.

19. SPORTS

• We demand equal opportunities in all codes of sports based on merit and the provision of recreational facilities in areas that’s lacking
• All schools should encourage active participation in all codes of sport.
• Youth need to be encouraged by sports federation to take part in sport with the aim of making sports a career.

20. TAXATION

• Big corporates should be given tax breaks to train and skill their employees.
• Tax – breaks for employees’ child – care facilities.
• Tax credits for disability employment
• No carbon emission taxes for small businesses.

21. TRANSPORT

• A look “like a National Road” programme should be iniated to improve road safety.
• Foreign drivers must be tested in South Africa before a license is issued.
• Drivers suspected of manslaughter on the roads must not be given bail, similarly speedsters. Corporate truckers must pay for road carnage with a “carnages cost” policy
  established.