By Lehlohonolo Lehana.
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema says the ruling African National Congress (ANC) will not only suffer a loss in KwazuluNatal but across the entire country.
Malema addressed Kwazulu-Natal Ground Forces Forum at the Olympia Hall Royal Show Grounds.
He insisted that the ANC would lose control of the province after the 2024 elections and that the EFF was targeting KwaZulu-Natal.
“It is the EFF that is removing the ANC from power. When we spoke and said to you, ‘We are the government in waiting’ they said we were mad, and they did not know what they were talking about. Some were even making jokes about it, saying that you are a government in waiting and you will wait forever, He said.
Malema claimed that individuals who questioned his party were unaware that the EFF would be in power in the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality before the 2024 general elections.
Malema has also taken a swipe at his political opponents, the Patriotic Alliance (PA), ActionSA and IFP, daring them to emulate the EFF’s success at hosting well-attended rallies.
In July this year, the EFF saw more than 100 000 people attend its 10th-year anniversary at FNB Stadium while last week. The PA failed to fill Orlando Stadium for its own 10th-year anniversary celebration last week. ActionSA’s its election manifesto in Hammanskraal on Saturday was also not as well attended as the EFF’s event.
You saw prisoners trying to imitate the EFF. These ex-convicts, called the PA, tried to imitate the EFF. You saw Mashaba, a man who is a hairdresser who is masquerading as a politician. Yesterday, he went to the place where he was born. He said: ‘I am going to launch a manifesto on a playground where I was born.’ He could not fill a stretch tent.
“We must show them that there is only one party in South Africa that can go anywhere and it will find its own people ready to receive it,” Malema said.
Malema, who addressed KZN’s ground forces forum in Pietermaritzburg on Sunday, dared the IFP to take on the challenge of hosting a well-co-ordinated rally for its election manifesto.
He said the EFF, unlike the IFP, was not a regional or tribalistic party.
“We are not a tribalistic party like the IFP. If the IFP says it is a national party, we challenge them to go and have a rally at Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane.We will have a rally at Moses Mabhida in KwaZulu-Natal,” he said.
Malema said the Red Berets would be launching their elections manifesto.
“Next year in February, we are in Moses Mabhida Stadium. On the 10th of February, we are launching our manifesto at Moses Mabhida Stadium in Ethekwini.
Watch in the video below:
Video Courtesy of EFFSA.