By Lehlohonolo Lehana.
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema, said that his party is not against the Government of National Unity (GNU) but rather against the inclusion of the Democratic Allliance (DA ) and Freedom Front Plus (FF+).
Malema addressed a press conference in Cape Town.
Malema said, the EFF has been engaging different role players having met with the leadership of the Umkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP), United Democratic Movement (UDM), African Transformation Movement (ATM), Al Jama-ah, and the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC).
“Despite our commitment to unite all opposition parties to completely remove the African National Congres (ANC) from power since it was rejected by 59% of voters in South Africa, we did not and will never meet with the Democratic Alliance (DA) and all right-wing Oppenheimer funded political parties,” Malema said.
“These right-wing and neo-liberal parties represent a reactionary, counter revolutionary, and neo-colonial agenda which seeks to protect the existing property relations in South Africa where the white minority continue to be the economic majority.”
Malema said that when the ANC met with the DA to discuss GNU, they discussed positions and not principals.
“The DA has got no principal agreements with the ANC, they have agreed on positions,” Malema said.
The EFF would remain an opposition party, opposed to the current government, he said.
“The people of South Africa must swallow what they have decided to chew, and they decided to chew 40% of the ANC,” he said.
“Why do they go and make decisions and hope someone is going to rescue them from the other side? It is their own decision, “Malema said.
“They chose load shedding, they chose Ramaphosa, they chose the highest level of unemployment, they chose racism, that’s what they chose.”
“The ANC is dying a natural death,” EFF leader said in a briefing ahead of the first sitting of Parliament.
He said that with or without Jacob Zuma, the projections were reflected in the May 29 elections. He added that research indicated that with the formation of the MK Party, the ANC would receive less than 50% of the votes.
Speaking on KwaZulu-Natal and the MK Party, he said the people have spoken and the party should be given the opportunity to lead.
“The EFF is of a firm conviction that MK Party should be given the opportunity to lead the government of KwaZulu-Natal, and we as the EFF will support all processes to constitute the legislature that is led and guided by MKP as the political party that received the highest number of votes in the province, “he said.
“The EFF continues to be a radical, militant and revolutionary economic emancipation movement and will not compromise principle on the altar of political and opportunistic convenience. We remain open to a discussion, now and in the future that will result in a government that does not include the DA and FF Plus.”