Julius Sello Malema

Sport Minister Fikile Mbalula owes his position at number six to his help in outflanking Zuma’s radical critics, such as sacked ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema...

Disenchanted ANC voters in shanty towns are unlikely to turn to the centre-right Democratic Alliance (DA), although the leftist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) have some resonance as does their leader, Julius Malema, who was expelled from the ANC after heading its Youth League and openly criticising Zuma (AC Vol 54 No 20, Political mould starts to break & How the parties will go into 2014)...

Only expelled ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema and his Economic Freedom Fighters are likely to make new inroads into the ANC’s support base in areas such as Limpopo Province...

The newest and most radical opposition party, the Economic Freedom Fighters, the splinter group led by former ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema, is showing strongly five months after its founding congress in August (AC Vol 54 No 16, Tilting at the ANC)...

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...