Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and former African Union Commission chairwoman Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma are not the solutions to the country’s problems with land reform. So said EFF leader Julius Malema‚ speaking at a Rand Merchant Bank event on Thursday about economic growth versus redistribution. "I don’t think there’s any willingness to work with Ramaphosa or [Dlamini-Zuma] because they are all the same‚ they come from a rotten organisation and the problem is not the individual‚ it’s the organisation," Malema said. "If there was an organisation‚ [President Jacob] Zuma wouldn’t be doing what he is doing." He was responding to a question on whether the EFF would be willing to forge a working relationship with the two presidential candidates to execute changes in the Constitution for land reform. Malema said neither Ramaphosa nor Dlamini-Zuma would be his preference. "You must avoid subscribing to politics of personality culture and think that Ramaphosa will be better than Zuma when ...

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