‘We will collapse the ANC and its history’, says Julius Malema
The EFF leader made clear his disdain for the party where he cut his teeth, and addressed accusations of selling out by co-operating with the DA and IFP
DURBAN — He was once the ANC golden boy‚ the youth league leader who vowed to kill for the party president — but Julius Malema has vowed to never return to the political party where he cut his teeth. "Go to the ANC? I don’t imagine myself doing that‚" he said in Durban on Sunday. He was addressing the party’s branch members about two months after the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) KwaZulu-Natal structures were disbanded because of poor performance in the province in the August local government election. Malema said that‚ even though the EFF was just three years old‚ it had made remarkable gains. And this gave him the confidence that he was in the right place. "I will never go to the ANC. Even if in 2019 [after the scheduled national election]‚ if the ANC gets less than 50% and needs the vote of the EFF we will tell them‚ ‘Here is the vote; we are collapsing the ANC and EFF into one organisation.’ We will find a new name and collapse the ANC and its history‚" he said to rapturous ap...
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