EFF leader Julius Malema has pledged to support the families of ten party members who died in a bus crash near Ulundi while returning from a Youth Day rally in Durban last week.
Speaking at their mass funeral in Vryheid on Sunday, Malema promised to build fully equipped houses for each victims family and to install boreholes where necessary to restore their dignity.
To the families of these young heroes, we say you are not alone. Your loss is our loss. Your tears are our tears. Your children are not forgotten. The EFF will walk with you we will support you and will continue to fight in their name.
We are going to honour all of these ten fallen heroes, each one of them with their house. A proper house that has got all the facilities. And if there is no water in those yards, well make sure we put in boreholes so that we restore the dignity of those families, Malema said.
He described the ten young party members as vibrant and full of promise.