The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) calls on all South Africans to actively participate in the legislative process of the Insourcing Bill, a Private Member’s Bill introduced in Parliament by the Treasurer General of the EFF, Omphile Maotwe. The Bill is scheduled to be formally tabled before the Portfolio Committee on Public Service and Administration on Wednesday, 4 March 2026.
We also welcome the decision of the Committee to include public participation in the processing of the Insourcing Bill following a principled demand by the EFF that the voices of the people must be heard before any determination is made on the desirability of the Bill. This victory for democratic accountability comes after attempts by certain members of the Committee to prematurely frustrate the Bill without affording the public an opportunity to make submissions.
The Insourcing Bill seeks to legislate one of the most fundamental objectives of the EFF, the building of State capacity to end the corrupt and wasteful tender system. If passed into law, the Bill will oblige the State to insource critical services such as cleaning, gardening, Information Technology services, catering, maintenance and repair services, and other essential support functions currently outsourced to private companies.
The over-reliance of the State on private contractors even for the most basic services has hollowed out public institutions, eroded internal capacity, entrenched corruption, and diverted public resources into the hands of politically connected elites. Insourcing is not merely an administrative reform, it is a decisive intervention to restore public service ethics, create stable employment, improve service delivery, and safeguard public funds.
We thank workers, labour formations, civil society organisations, students, professionals, outsourced workers and all members of society who submitted inputs and comments during the drafting of the Insourcing Bill. Your contributions have strengthened the content of this progressive legislation and reaffirmed the collective commitment to building a capable and corruption-free State.
We further call on all those who wish to make written and/or oral submissions during the parliamentary process to formally indicate their intention to do so to the Secretary of the Portfolio Committee on Public Service and Administration no later than 24 February 2026, and to copy EFF Communications in their correspondence.
In their correspondence, prospective participants must clearly state whether they intend to make a written submission, an oral presentation, or both, and indicate their availability for Wednesday, 4 March 2026, to enable the Committee to properly coordinate and schedule the proceedings.
Link:
https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Bills/2025/B19_2025_Insourcing_Bill.pdf
The EFF has received both praise and criticism for its confrontational style.
Dorothy Solitaire
Eish! – an exclamation [Ay-sh] or [ee-sh] A Khoi term usually expressed when someone experiences surprise or shock.
Seattle Jay
A British man on safari walks into a bar far out in the reaches of a game reserve in Southern Africa, he stays at the bar for a while shooting the shit with the bartender and drinking like a fish, he offer to buy the barkeep a round and since no one else is within 2km of their small oasis of liquor the barkeep obliges. The englishman goes off to the bathroom to have a good old go at the porcelain, he\’s back and ready for a few more whiskeys. He\’s just sat down when suddenly in the distance he hears a scream. He looks over his shoulder and dismisses it as nothing, he turns to the barkeep and orders a drink, takes a sip and hears the scream again. He looks at the barkeep who just shrugs it off. A minute or two later he and the barman hear it again and go outside to take a look. They see a lone figure running towards them screaming, he spots them and lets out a cry, RUN!!!!! HE\”S COMING!!!!!
The barkeep and the Englishman both look at the terrified bedraggled sight before them, and try to calm him down, but he\’s completely inconsolable. They give him water and finally manage to get a word out of him but he struggles free from their grasp and run away screaming.
A few minutes later the same thing happens with a whole group of men running in and screaming, he\’s coming, he\’s coming the barkeep grabs hold of one of the men as he tries to sprint past the bar and tries to get information out of him, again no response other than terrified gibberish.
The barkeep and his customer are starting to get worried, they start to pack up before another group of horrified natives run up to the bar most of them flee but one tries to hide behind the bar, the barkeep pulls out a shotgun and points it at the terrified man\’s face, finally managing to coax some words out of him. \”He\’s coming for us, Vernon Koekemoer is coming for us, we have to hide!!! We have to get out of here.\” He gets up and tries to run but the barkeep grabs him, feeling trapped in a panic he grabs the barkeeps shotgun and blows his own head off. The Englishman and the barkeep look at each other starting to really panic now.
They look out of the window and off in the distance they see a tornado coming towards the bar, at the bottom of the tornado they see the hugest beast of a man they have ever seen, as he gets closer they spot that he is riding a rhinocerous and using a crocodile as a riding whip, with each smack of the crocodile across the back of the rhino the louder is screams and the faster it runs, the tornado following it getting ever larger.
The 2 look at each other and start to fortify their position, they\’ve got a gun and they\’re waaay to drunk to run, so they start piling bar stool and tables and anything they can get their hands on to make sure they\’ll be safe when he arrives. They\’re not gonna make it, they can see the man slowing down his rhino, by now the crocodile is nothing but reptile paste on the bruised rump of the half dead rhino, the rhino drops down dead from exhaustion and crashes to the ground right outside the bar the tornado loses it\’s last breath in a cloud of dust as the huge man crashes his way through the make shift barricade and charges up towards the bar where the 2 men have taken shelter, he grabs a bottle of the hardest liquor on the shelf and down the entire litre in 1 gulp, he peers over the bar sobbing and sees the 2 defenders cowering down behind the crates of beer, they look up at the mans\’ face and he stares at them with a look of complete and utter hopelessness, he stares at them for a half second and half screams, half sobs, \”Oh my god what are you still doing here!!! WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE NOW!!!! Vernon Koekemoer is coming!!!!\”