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Municipalities should keep the right to buy electricity from private power companies as well as from Eskom.

The 2026 manifesto says municipalities should encourage private electricity generation and launch their own affordable alternative generation projects. The 2024 manifesto goes further, calling for the electricity sector to be deregulated so that suppliers compete, for Eskom to be unbundled and privatised, and for local supply and micro-grids to replace central generation.

Unpaid household electricity debts should be collected, not cancelled.

In August 2026 the party opposed a municipal plan to write off 70 percent of qualifying consumers' arrears, calling it financially reckless, unfair to residents who paid and a signal that non-payment is rewarded, and asked for targeted help for genuinely vulnerable households instead.

Eskom's older coal power stations should close on their planned dates.

The 2024 manifesto says the party's policy means increasingly replacing coal-fired power stations with renewable plants and that the large-scale shift to renewables should be prioritised, while its energy spokesperson has said the transition must be gradual for the sake of coal communities and that coal will stay in the mix for the foreseeable future. It does not say whether the stations should close on their planned dates, so this is a mixed position.

The law should make it quicker to remove people who have recently moved onto land without permission.

The 2024 manifesto wants swift action, with accountability, against the illegal occupation of land, buildings and parks, and in June 2026 the party said evictions from hijacked buildings in Tshwane must follow the PIE Act with a court order. It wants fast action within the current court process and has not said whether the PIE Act should change, so it sits between the two sides.

In some cases the state should be able to take land for housing or public use without paying the owner.

The 2024 manifesto states strong opposition to expropriation without compensation, says the Expropriation Bill's nil compensation clause should be stopped, and wants market-related compensation with expropriation powers resting with a high court. In June 2026 the party said it was unwaveringly opposed to a metro using nil-compensation expropriation for a housing project.

The death penalty should be brought back for murder.

A 2017 article by the then party leader on the party website records that the party's submission to the 2001 commission of inquiry into farm attacks said the death penalty must be reinstated. In a 2019 interview the same leader said the party supports the death penalty for murder, subject to strict safeguards.

Yearly increases to the national minimum wage should be no more than about the rate of inflation.

In 2021 the party opposed the national minimum wage increases, saying farmers and other employers could not afford them and would shed workers or mechanise. The 2024 manifesto calls rigid labour law a major obstacle to job creation and wants it amended.

Labour laws should make it easier for businesses to hire and dismiss workers.

The 2024 manifesto calls rigid labour legislation one of the biggest obstacles to growth and jobs, complains that it is difficult to dismiss incompetent staff, and says labour law should be amended to promote job creation while keeping fair labour practices.

Municipalities should employ their security guards, cleaners and other contract workers directly, rather than through contractors.

In 2022 the party blamed the insourcing of security guards in Nelson Mandela Bay for the loss of security at municipal sites and demanded that security companies be appointed, and in 2025 it called a Tshwane plan to spend R230 million on benefits for contracted guards reckless and said the city should use cost-effective, targeted outsourcing and technology instead.

Unemployed adults should get a basic income grant well above the current R370 a month.

In October 2022 the party leader said South Africa cannot afford a basic income grant and that job creation should remove the need for one, and in its 2024 response to GroundUp the party said the grant is unaffordable and unsustainable, proposing growth, private-sector jobs and a job-seeker voucher instead.

People earning more than about R1.9 million a year should pay more tax than they do now.

The 2024 manifesto says personal and company tax should be lowered to stimulate investment and jobs, and prefers VAT to close deficits because everyone pays. In February 2026 the party welcomed the full inflation adjustment of income tax brackets and said taxpayers remain overburdened.

When awarding tenders, municipalities should keep giving extra points to black-owned businesses.

The 2026 manifesto blames failed infrastructure projects on contractors appointed on BEE criteria rather than value for money and ability, condemns BEE and affirmative action as post-apartheid race discrimination, and commits the party to fight BEE inside any coalition it joins. The 2024 manifesto calls for BEE to be abolished.

Party leaders outside the council should have a say in who gets senior municipal jobs such as municipal manager.

The 2026 manifesto blames municipal collapse on senior officials appointed for political affiliation and cadre deployment, and commits the party to appointing municipal managers and other officials on merit alone, with favouritism based on political affiliation eradicated. The 2021 manifesto said party factions must play no role in officials' work.

A party should need at least 1% of the vote to get a seat on a council.

In August 2023 the party leader rejected the 1 to 2 percent council threshold proposals discussed at the coalition dialogue, saying a threshold wastes votes and tells supporters of small parties that their votes do not count.

Parties should be required by law to make women at least half of their candidates.

In a March 2025 statement the party said gender inequality cannot be artificially corrected with targets and quotas, called quotas an insult to deserving women, and defined true equality as equal opportunities rather than equal outcomes.

Provincial governments should be scrapped, with their work handed to national government and municipalities.

The 2024 manifesto builds on subsidiarity, with provinces doing what municipalities cannot and national government only what provinces cannot, and it calls for power to be devolved rather than centralised. In 2019 the party opposed a plan to cut the nine provinces to six, saying decisions and resources must sit at provincial and municipal level.

The Western Cape should hold a referendum on whether to become an independent country.

The 2024 manifesto says registered voters in the Western Cape should be given the chance to express their view on the path of self-determination they want, which could lead to autonomy and possible independence, and it names CapeXit among the initiatives it supports. In 2023 the party leader said the province's people should decide by referendum whether they want to remain part of the country.

The National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme should go ahead.

The 2024 manifesto says the NHI will worsen public healthcare, calls the NHI Bill unconstitutional and unaffordable and lists stopping the NHI as its first health solution, and in May 2026 the party said government should stop the NHI immediately after the Constitutional Court ruling on the certificate of need.

The school's governing body should have the final say on the language the school teaches in.

The 2024 manifesto objects that the BELA Bill moves the final say over school language, religious and admission policies from school governing bodies to provincial education departments, and it commits the party to replacing the Bill and protecting mother-tongue education.

Public universities and colleges should be free for all students, not only for those from poorer homes.

The FF Plus manifesto says nothing of value comes free: a FF Plus government would still offer bursaries but demand counter-performance, and bursaries for good performers should go on merit and financial need in partnership with industry, with a year of work for each year funded. In May 2026 its MP Wynand Boshoff added that there is no such thing as free higher education, that beneficiaries ought to contribute and repay through the SARS payroll system, and that NSFAS should rather be abolished.

The government should sell SAA, the national airline.

The FF Plus 2024 manifesto says SAA should be completely privatised and tax money should no longer be spent on it, and more broadly that state companies should be privatised and all financial lifelines to failed entities stopped. That answers the statement directly.

The mines should be brought under state ownership.

The 2024 manifesto says state-owned enterprises should be privatised and proposes a standing rule barring government from taking part in the free market at all. In 2019 the party's finance spokesperson called ANC plans to nationalise the Reserve Bank an attack on democratic principles and pledged to fight state control of resources.

Government should end race-based measures such as BEE in jobs, contracts and benefits.

The 2024 manifesto strongly opposes race-based measures such as affirmative action and BEE, says the Employment Equity Act should be scrapped and BEE and transformation targets removed from government policy, and wants socio-economic need rather than skin colour to decide who qualifies for empowerment.

The courts should keep the power to cancel a law that breaks the Constitution.

In a 2017 statement the party's current leader cited the constitutional rule that any law inconsistent with the Constitution is invalid and said the judiciary's hand should be strengthened. The party has since relied on the courts to strike down legislation, welcoming the Constitutional Court's May 2026 ruling against part of the NHI Act.

Government should play a smaller part in the economy than it does now.

The 2024 manifesto says only the free market can create and protect economic value, proposes a standing rule barring government from taking part in the free market, wants needless regulation removed, and calls for state-owned enterprises to be privatised.