Julius Sello Malema

Opposition on the riseOf the three opposition parties in contention – the Democratic Alliance, the radical populist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) of Julius Malema and Mamphela Ramphele’s Agang party – the DA will consolidate its position as the largest, most successful opposition party...

ANC apparatchiks were furious, initially but incorrectly blaming the booing on an orchestrated campaign by Julius Malema and his Economic Freedom Fighters party (AC Vol 54 No 20, Political mould starts to break & How the parties will go into 2014)...

The SACP, a political minority with elite privileges through its cross-membership with the ANC, continues to back Zuma’s presidency, leaving the ground on the left to Julius Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters party (AC Vol 54 No 16, Tilting at the ANC)...

Julius Malema’s EFF could make a major electoral impact and influence the future direction of South African politics, bringing populist radicalism into the mainstream and espousing expropriation and redistribution on the Zimbabwean model...

Julius Malema aims to bring populist radicalism into the mainstream of South African politics...

Julius Malema, 32, had already achieved notoriety for radical rhetoric and raising the temperature of race relations, including two convictions for hate speech in 2010 and 2011, before the ANC expelled him last year...

Mathale had backed ANC Vice-President Kgalema Motlanthe’s challenge for the party presidency and has been closely associated with the expelled ANC Youth League President, Julius Malema...

He also got tough in Limpopo Province, home of ANCYL’s expelled President, Julius Malema, who is Motlanthe’s close ally...

He draws the line at Phosa, who defended ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema at his disciplinary hearings and has been dismissive of Zuma in National Executive Committee (NEC) meetings and elsewhere...

The head of the National Disciplinary Committee, Science and Technology Minister Derek Hanekom, kept his job: he worked to expel Zuma’s opponent Julius Malema...

Limpopo Province, the base of former ANC Youth League President Julius Malema, was a bastion of anti-Zuma feeling...