Removing President Jacob Zuma as the head of state is one of the requirements political parties have highlighted ahead of going into coalitions talks with the ANC.

Political parties have released 'shopping list guidelines' ahead of going into coalition talks.

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), United Democratic Movement (UDM), Congress Of The People (Cope) and United Front (UF) held a meeting to discuss guidelines ahead of coalition talks with the ANC and the DA.

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The removal of President Zuma, putting an end to e-Tolls and reviewing the tender system are some of the highlights coming out of the discussions.

UDM leader Bantu Holomisa said that the parties discussed, among other things, how the coalitions that are to be formed will pan out.

The parties agreed that the coalitions that are to be formed have to work in favour of the people of South Africa and not serve political agendas of either the ANC and the DA.

They also agreed that they will not be going into a "political marriage" that will see the smaller party being "swallowed" up by the majority party.

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Holomisa said they have also noted that South Africans are mindful of the dangers of having one dominant party state and believe that in order to secure the Constitution as well as future success of the country, all political parties need to work together.

"The voters have spread the power. If they wanted one party they could've voted for one party," said Holomisa.

The parties agreed that they will only go into coalition with the ANC and DA if they are interested in the service of the people.

Here are some of the political parties' demands:

1. Service delivery relate matters

• Provision of clean water and in particular to rural hinterland;

• Provision of quality shelter for all those who deserve and qualify with speed, and eradication of informal settlements;

• Electrification of all rural areas and provision of reliable electricity to all;

• Better waste management systems for social and economic beneficiation of citizens;

• Putting an end to E-Tolls;

• Regulation of the informal trading including street vendor hawkers;

• Prioritisation, formalisation and integration of the Early Childhood Development as part of the mainstream education system;

• Vigorous and meaningful actions intended to create sustainable jobs;

• An immediate review of the procurement (tendering) system to favour amongst other Local Economic Development and beneficiation;

• Reviewing of the current property valuation and rating system;

• Improving of the billing system to ensure that citizens pay for services they consume;

• Creation of the dedicated units for regular maintenance of the infrastructure;

• Eliminating corruption at all levels of government;

• Removal of the current Head of State who has been an embodiment of corruption;

• Finalisation of the proper naming of the Capital City of the South Africa;

• Provision of Free Education to all deserving citizens;

• Immediate suspension of the envisaged Nuclear deal;

2. Budget Implications/ review

Amongst other things to be agreed on as a matter of urgency, is the review budget so that it responds to the issues raised above.

National and Provincial Governments are already in the process of the mid-term budget review and municipalities will be entering this process very soon as they have just adopted IDPs and Budget two months ago.

Accordingly, as parties we strongly agree, that the next six months should be used to review and realign budgets in order to ensure maximum resourcing of the above priorities.

3. Constitutional Reforms

In this regard, the parties felt very strong that whilst other matters are of long term nature, a very clear and binding time frames must be agreed to by all. We further propose a firm commitment amongst all political parties to the convening of an urgent National Convention, led by political parties and all other social partners, to consider and resolve on the following, amongst others:

• Land question;

• Property ownership;

• Nationalisation;

• Electoral reforms;

• Party Funding Legislation;

• Strengthening of the Chapter nine institutions.

Holomisa has however highlighted that these are not cast in stone but are there to guide parties in an engagement.