Julius Malema, the expelled president of the African National Congress Youth League. He failed in the appeal to his the suspension., a photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos on Flickr.
Malema’s EFF to contest 2014 poll
Friday, 12 July 2013 00:00
JOHANNESBURG. - Julius Malema officially launched his new political organisation, the Economic Freedom Fighters yesterday.
Malema said it was agreed by members that the EFF would be a radical leftist movement that will look to contest the 2014 elections.
“We are not like Agang (SA) and all of them . . . We have a completely different plan.”
The former ANC Youth League president said the EFF will focus on land expropriation and promised that white South Africans “are more than welcome to join us in the redistribution of land and wealth in South Africa”.
Malema said: “This land is too big. There is nobody who will be driven to the sea. We will share, black and white. But failure to share means you will be forced to share.
“We all belong here, but we all have to show proof that we belong here. Black people have nothing to show. Therefore we must give them something to show so they can say proudly: this is our land, this is our country.”
While he lashed out at the ANC, he said that the EFF’s “number one enemy” is Helen Zille’s Democratic Alliance as “they support monopoly capital”.
“We will never go to bed with (the DA),” Malema said.
He also took aim at the SABC, saying it was run at Luthuli House, the ANC’s headquarters.
“Comrades in the SABC operate like its the 80’s . . . (they are) scared they are going to be fired,” Malema said.
He said that high profile members of government will help the EFF “from within” while the organisation also consults with unions within Cosatu.
Malema was speaking at a news conference in Braamfontein.
— News24.
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