EFF disputes report saying 60% of the party’s MPs have left since 2014
The EFF have questioned a report released by the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) suggesting that 60% of the party’s MPs have left parliament since 2014. In an op-ed in the Daily Maverick‚ EFF MP and deputy secretary-general Hlengiwe Mkhaliphi said the author of the institute’s report‚ Gareth van Onselen‚ has a sworn dislike for the party and its internal workings. "Any observer looking at a restructuring of the EFF caucus in the way Van Onselen describes it should wonder how it is that 60% was changed‚ yet there is no implosion in the EFF. Without giving the leadership an opportunity to offer the other side of the story‚ you are unable‚ purely on the bias of numbers and half-baked media quotations‚ to come to an intelligible conclusion. In a sense‚ Van Onselen uses quantitative means to make a qualitative claim and has only succeeded in showing off his dislike of the EFF and not the truth about the EFF‚" Mkhaliphi said. In the report‚ released earlier this month‚ V...
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