THE new leadership of the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) has vowed to turn over a new leaf, but what has become of the rebels who wreaked such havoc during the Julius Malema era?Former youth league president Malema was quick to reinvent himself as the commander-in-chief of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), the party he founded in 2013, a little more than a year after the ANC gave him his marching orders. In 2014, on a shoestring budget, his party contested the national elections and won 6% of the vote, becoming the country’s second-largest opposition party and the biggest bane of parliament.Last month the courts threw out the case of corruption, fraud and money-laundering he had been battling since 2012. The born-again socialist has also settled his multimillion-rand bill with the revenue collector.During Malema’s first term as league president, which began in 2008, Andile Lungisa was elected as his deputy. Though he lacked the political presence of his boss, he too was no stranger to ...
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