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GUIDELINES ON BRANCH PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLIES: 1) Regional Command Teams should put in place Ward Command Teams of 10 members of the EFF in all Wards and task them with recruitment of EFF members, and the principle is that 1 Ward should have 1 WCT of 10 paid up members. 2) Ward Command Teams (WCTs) in all wards should drive the programme of recruitment, working with the RCT and receiving members who have joined online and referred to them by the upper structures of the EFF. 3) Each branch of the EFF should be constituted of a minimum of 100 members in a Ward (representative of all areas, sections, phases, voting districts, and villages in all wards) recruited by members of the EFF and all information submitted to the Ward Command Team. 4) The original Membership forms of each branch should be submitted to the regional office for filing and printing of membership cards, while the branch retains copies of all the membership forms of their members, and giving a copy of the membership form to each member who joined before they receive their membership card. 5) Only membership forms with a bank stamp or an attached bank receipt of R10 per membership form will be regarded as a valid membership filled membership of the EFF. 6) Once membership has been confirmed to be a minimum of 100 members in a ward, the Ward Command Team should write a letter to the Regional Command Team asking for a deployee from the RCT or assigned by the Regional Coordinator to preside over their Branch People’s Assembly (BPA). 7) The Regional Coordinator is the only person who can write letters stating that the RCT has approved the convening of the BPA, and stating the names of the deployees to the BPA should communicate all RCT deployments to the BPAs. 8) Sub-regional Command Teams, PCT and CCT Members who preside over the Branch People’s Assemblies should have an approval letter from the Regional Co-ordinator to preside over the BPA. 9) The BPA should be constituted by a quorum of 50% + 1 of the total membership of the Branch, meaning that the BPA will only be acknowledged and recognised as legitimate only when half of its members + 1 or more are in the meeting. 10) All members attending the BPA should sign two attendance registers, and write their contact details on both the attendance registers. Members should be reminded that the signatures they used on the membership forms should be similar to the signatures they put on the attendance register. 11) Once a quorum of 50% + 1 has been reached, the deployee from the RCT should preside over the meeting, and present a political overview, which covers the Founding Manifesto of the EFF to all members. 12) After the presentation of the political overview, the RCT deployee should ask for nomination of the Branch Command Team (BCT), whose positions should be Chairperson, Deputy Chairperson, Secretary, Deputy Secretary and Treasurer. 13) After the election of the Top 5 positions, the deployee should preside over the nomination and election of 10 additional members. 14) In instances where there is contestation for the Branch Command Team, voting shall be by show of hands. 15) All BCTs of the EFF shall be constituted by a minimum of 50% females, meaning that in a WCT of 15 Members, a minimum of 7 shall be females. 16) After the election, the newly elected Chairperson shall address the BGA on what he/she believe are the immediate tasks to build and grow the EFF in their wards. 17) After the meeting, the RCT deployee shall take the attendance register, and leave the second copy with the newly elected BCT. 18) In the BPA, all members of the Branch shall elect two delegates who will represent the Branch in the upcoming Regional People’s Assembly (RGA) and Provincial People’s Assembly, and the Central People’s Assembly. 19) The two delegates should be gender balanced, meaning that one should be male and one should be female. 20) Depending on the decision of the Branch, the delegations to the Regional, Provincial and Central People’s Assemblies can be the same people or different people, as long as they are members of the EFF in the ward that is electing delegates. 21) The delegates elected should be clearly designated that they are for which Assembly, and no replacement of delegates will be accepted once their names have been submitted for audit purposes. 22) The names of the delegates elected for each of the Assemblies should be clearly stated in the report presented by the deployees to the Regional Coordinator and a copy retained with the Branch. 23) Branches that have already gone to their Branch People’s Assemblies, meeting all the requirements of a minimum of 100 members, and having reached a quorum should convene a Branch General Assembly to elect delegates to the Regional, Provincial and Central People’s Assembly. 24) Institutions of Higher Learning can launch branches and elect delegates to the Regional, Provincial and National People’s Assemblies, and the requirements stipulated here should be followed. Branches in institutions of Higher Learning should be constituted of both workers (academic, administrative and support) and students in the particular institution of higher learning. D. REGIONAL PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLY: 1) The Regional People’s Assembly shall be constituted by delegates from all Branches of the EFF in good standing in a demarcation of a District or Metropolitan Municipality. 2) For RGA to happen, a minimum of 70% of WARDS in the Region should have gone to their Branch General Assemblies, and elected Branch Command Teams, and also elected delegates to the RPA. 3) The Audit on the validity of the BPAs will be conducted by a Team from the Central Command Team, and will strictly monitor and assess whether the BPAs happened within the stipulated period and whether all people whose signatures are on the attendance register attended the BGAs. 4) Once the CCT Audit Team is satisfied that all requirements have been met for the convening of a Regional General Assembly, the National Coordinator shall write a letter to the Province summoning the convening of the Regional General Assembly, which should necessarily be presided by members of the Central Command Team in the presence of the Provincial Command Team. 5) The RGA shall elect its Regional Command Team, which shall include the following: Chairperson, Deputy Chairperson, Secretary, Deputy Secretary and Treasurer. 6) The RGA shall elect 10 additional members into the RPA, and a minimum of 7 females shall constitute the total 15 members of the Regional Command Team. 7) In instances where there is contestation, voting shall be by secret ballot in a transparent and open process which should be observed by a minimum of 5 and maximum of 7 delegates to the RPA. 8) The elected Regional Chairperson and Secretary will be members of the Provincial Command Team. E. PROVINCIAL PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLY: 1) The Provincial People’s Assembly will be constituted of delegates from branches, who should constitute a minimum of 80% of voting delegates to the Provincial People’s Assembly; 5 VOTING delegates from each of the elected RCTs, and Members of the PCT. 2) The Provincial People’s Assembly shall only happen when a minimum of 70% of the total number of wards in a province have launched their branches and they are in good standing. 3) The Convenor of the PCT shall present a comprehensive political report to the PPA and Coordinator shall present a comprehensive organisational report to the PPA, which will be discussed and adopted by the PPA. 4) The Provincial People’s Assembly shall elect a Provincial Command Team, which should have the following positions: Chairperson, Deputy Chairperson, Secretary, Deputy Secretary and Treasurer. 5) The Provincial People’s Assembly shall elect 16 additional members of the Provincial Command Team (PCT). 6) Overall, a minimum of 50% of the Provincial Command Team shall be females. 7) In the instance where there is contestation of leadership positions in the PCT, a secret ballot will be presented by an Independent Electoral Body, which will ensure free and fair elections. F. NATIONAL PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLY: 1) The National People’s Assembly is the highest decision making body of the EFF, and shall be constituted by two voting delegates per Branch, 5 voting delegates per Region, and 20 voting delegates from the elected Provincial Command Teams. 2) The Branch delegates to the National People’s Assembly shall be elected in duly constituted Branch People’s Assemblies (BPA) and Branch General Assemblies within a process stipulated above. 3) The National People’s Assembly shall elect a Central Command Team constituted of the following positions: 1) President, 2) Deputy President, 3) General Secretary, 4) Deputy General Secretary, 5) National Chairperson, 6) Treasurer and 35 Additional Members. The National People’s Assembly is the highest body in terms of policy, political and ideological positions of the EFF. 4) The National People’s Assembly shall elect 35 additional members into the Central Command Team. 5) Overall, a minimum of 50% of the Central Command Team shall be females. 6) In the instance where there is contestation of leadership positions in the CCT, a secret ballot will be presented by an Independent Electoral Body, which will ensure free and fair elections. G. KEY DATES FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THESE GUIDELINES: 1) Recruitment and renewal of Membership: Ongoing 2) Branch People’s Assemblies: 30th June 2014 to 7thSeptember 2014 3) Regional People’s Assemblies: 22nd August 2014 to 5th October 2014 4) Provincial People’s Assemblies: 5th October to 30th November 2014 5) National People’s Assembly: 13th o the 16th of December 2014. 6) Within these dates, RCTs and PCTs shall write to the CCT to request for the National Audit Team to audit branches if they are ready for the respective Assemblies. H. NOMINATIONS FOR THE COMMAND TEAMS 1) All branches have the right through their BPAs an
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