The main beneficiaries of its vote collapse will be the populist parties Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party rather than the centre-right Democratic Alliance (DA)...
Vol 66 No 8 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The ANC could secure a fragile majority without the DA or a more stable one by bringing Julius Malema's radical EFF into the fold...
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Vol 66 No 6 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Having two budgets publicly rejected by his coalition partners has given opposition parties led by former President Jacob Zuma's Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) party and Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) an easy target to accuse the government of hitting the poor...
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Vol 66 No 3 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Signing the bill will appeal to the African National Congress's left and is a clear attempt to win back voters who previously shifted their support to Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and former President Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party...
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But a fallout between the EFF's Julius Malema and MK's Jacob Zuma has shattered the original post-election ‘progressive alliance' of the parties (AC Vol 65 No 16 Hurdles for Progressive Caucus)...
Vol 65 No 24 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party is shaping the landscape as it gears up for its first anniversary on 16 December its ranks bolstered by several high-profile defectors from Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)...
Vol 65 No 19 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The EFF was formed in 2013 after Julius Malema and Shivambu were found guilty of misconduct and forced out of the ANC Youth League – ironically during Zuma's presidency...
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Vol 65 No 18 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The defection of Floyd Shivambu to Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto weSizwe party has dealt a hammer blow to Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) particularly now that Shivambu has been appointed as MK's national organiser...
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Julius Malema leader of the radical opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) called on the Zimbabwean youth to ‘rise up' and overthrow Mnangagwa...
Vol 65 No 16 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
When the United Democratic Movement's Bantu Holomisa and Economic Freedom Fighters' Julius Malema called a press conference on the morning of 14 June at the Cape Town Convention Centre a few hours before Cyril Ramaphosa was re-elected as president the media hastily rushed to it not sure what to expect...