Julius Sello Malema

A few months earlier the ANC had categorically rejected calls by Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters for land expropriation without compensation...

Vote fallOpposition politicians are already looking past the ANC's December conference to the 2019 elections when analysts say that the ANC is likely to see its vote share drop below 50% potentially forcing it into coalitions at provincial and municipal level with the Democratic Alliance of Mmusi Maimane or the leftist Economic Freedom Fighters of Julius Malema...

'It will be either Cyril Ramaphosa Julius Malema or Mmusi Maimane...

Pauw also reports that cigarette manufacturer Adriano Mazotti close to Mark Roy Lifman a kingpin in Cape Town's gangland contributed to the campaign of ANC presidential hopeful Dlamini-Zuma (AC Vol 55 No 20 Julius Malema in the dock)...

On 7 May The Sunday Mail carried a report that Kasukuwere was in a conspiracy with Julius Malema the leader of South Africa's opposition Economic Freedom Fighters to oust Mugabe in a coup...

A coalition with Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters gave the Democratic Alliance control of key cities including Johannesburg and Tshwane (Pretoria) after August's local elections...

The EFF under Julius Malema the former head of ANCYL and once Zuma's ally has also warned its supporters that Zuma's version of these terms was not authentic although his left turn has divided the party as it was no doubt partly intended to do (see Box Zuma tries to baffle Malema with 'left turn')...

Its leader Julius Malema's solution to the political conundrum is to promise to join forces with the ANC but only if it drops Zuma and its name (AC Vol 58 No 4 The state of Jacob Zuma's presidency )...

It believes the older generation of ANC leaders is failing to connect with young people and is at a disadvantage facing youthful party leaders such as the Democratic Alliance's Mmusi Maimane and the Economic Freedom Fighters' Julius Malema a former ANCYL leader (AC Vol 58 No 4 The state of Jacob Zuma's presidency)...

Meanwhile the party is labelling the Economic Freedom Fighters' (EFF) new enthusiasm for Zuma's 'left turn' as naked opportunism even though Julius Malema's party could be attracting young leftists away from the SACP...

It would remove one of the key pillars of a document embodying the lengthily and thoroughly negotiated compromise that 23 years ago ended apartheid and ushered in majority rule Rapid reactionZuma's intervention drew a range of reactions: Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) who won 6% of the vote in the 2014 general elections had already called the ANC's bluff at the end of last month by proposing a motion in Parliament for the law to be changed to allow for land expropriation without compensation...

Zuma does not conceal his desire to replace Gordhan with a more pliable minister who would pursue his goal of 'radical economic transformation' which ANC factions believe is needed to head off further inroads by the Economic Freedom Fighters of Julius Malema on the ANC's left...