Ramaphosa fears economic turmoil were the ANC to meet the EFF's coalition demands – including the deputy presidency for EFF leader Julius Malema the nationalisation of South Africa's Reserve Bank an economic Cabinet portfolio for the EFF and the expropriation of private land without compensation...

2m to sit at party leader Julius Malema's table at an event in 2023...

They say that if Mashatile becomes President he will pull in his friend Julius Malema of the populist Economic Freedom Fighters as his deputy...

The EFF is led by former ANC Youth League President Julius Malema...

Africa Confidential understands that Zuma's strategy is to reverse engineer the new uMkhonto weSizwe (Spear of the Nation MK) party into a post-election alliance headed by Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) with smaller parties associated with the ANC's Radical Economic Transformation (RET) faction such as the African Transformation Movement (ATM) and the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC)...

There is also a divide between those who favour a coalition with Julius Malema's populist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and those who want closer ties with the centrist Democratic Alliance (DA) of John Steenhuisen...

Julius Malema who has led the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) since he was expelled from the ANC called for ties with Israel to be severed due to its 'relentless oppression of the Palestinian people'...