We have delivered specific things in various Wards, such as pavements, lights, upgrading to roads, flats and greening the environment. We have stopped the evictions of poor tenants. We have stopped the relocation of poor people. Because we held the balance of power in the Ethekwini Municipality, we were able to ensure that affirmative action was properly implemented and people of all race groups were properly appointed to key jobs. The MF has ensured that the infill sites have been fairly allocated to all people with 50% to local people and 50% to people from outside an area. We have tabled motions which have been very useful in influencing Council resolutions for the good of ratepayers.

The MF believes that demarcation should be a widely consultative process because it gives a false impression of Municipalities just like it does to wards which are unfairly cut up just for election purposes. Demarcations or boundaries are very dear to people heart’s and if an area is being cut off then other trade-offs must be given, eg: the strengthening of the North West Province Municipalities in budgetary terms. The Views of the local people are very important.

Housing can be improved if the housing register which was closed in 1998 is re-opened and if the housing department employs proper consultants to do proper housing surveys and then get efficient planners in the department to implement findings of research . South Africa must become a property owning democracy making banking institutions to provide different plans to access bonds for the ordinary people. Bureaucracy in Land ownership belonging to other departments which can be rezoned housing land must be considered urgently. Ordinary people find it difficult to follow the present People’s housing process, therefore we should strongly consider housing co-operatives for ordinary citizens to own their own houses.

Municipal Service Delivery can only improve if we strongly follow the M.F.M.A. We need a strong internal audit unit within various directorates in order to curb fruitless expenditure, fraud and corruption. We need realistic Municipal Managers Salaries and more posts created to help the Municipal Manager apart from the deputy’s. Municipal Officials should be apolitical then only would we get proper service delivery. We need to get rid of old-by-laws and out-dated ordinances if we want improvements. We need constant training and performance evaluation of Municipal Staff.

The MF’s view is that gun-control legislation should be reviewed with respect to cutting down bureaucracy with gun ownership and licensing fees. Also gun ownership should act as a deterrent to criminals who currently have more freedom to own un-licensed firearms than licensed gun owners have to protect themselves.

State Education should be free to all South Africans, even at tertiary level. If we cut down on unnecessary personnel then we would have enough budget to give free education. In the private sector, we should cap the fee structure to a reasonable and affordable cost. Public and Private partnerships are needed to assist disadvantaged students at Tertiary Level.

The MF welcomes Gay and Lesbian equality. These are Minority Groups in South Africa and Worldwide. Sexual orientation in our view is one’s choice because we believe that the source is purely medical in nature. Therefore these people must not be ostracised but accepted as normal because there are a lot of normal people who can also become abnormal if chemical and hormonal imbalances occur in their body. We have no gay and lesbian people at present in our party but we know a lot of such people and we accept them.

In May last year, the Institute for Democracy in South Africa's application to have political parties disclose their funding sources was dismissed in court. Would your party disclose its sources of funding? Explain.