Amid an exodus of prominent members of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), party leader Julius Malema is welcome to return to his former party, the African National Congress (ANC).
This is according to ANC Youth League president Collen Malatji.
WILL JULIUS MALEMA RETURN TO THE ANC?
Malema rose to infamy as president of the ANC Youth League and at one stage boasted that he would die for the party and for then-president of the ANC, Jacob Zuma.
Malema was elected ANCYL president in 2008 and he was expelled for five years in 2012 for fomenting divisions and bringing the party into disrepute. Malema appealed the decision, however, the party’s national disciplinary committee (NDC) upheld its decision.
The vibrant politician then co-founded the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in July 2013 with long-time friend Floyd Shivambu who has since dumped the Red Berets and joined Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party.
Speaking to MDN News Malatji said the EFF is not growing at the moment, so it’s the best time for Malema to return to his former party.
“It’s the best time to collapse the EFF and come back to the ANC and try to build a stronger force. If he’s not doing that, he will end up like COPE, that’s where he is going,” Malatji said.
“We will accept him any day, Julius is trained by the ANC, everything knows and does he is trained by the ANC, he is a product of the youth league, he’s a product of Cosas.
“There’s nothing he’s doing now that he learned in the EFF, even how he walks, how he speaks, it’s ANC politics, he’s an ANC person. The only problem is that we were reckless in how we fired him and expelled him from the ANC. I think that decision was too harsh, we should’ve found a better way,” Malatji added.
MBALULA ADMITS THAT EXPELLING JUJU WAS A DISASTER
In September, ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula also admitted that expelling the party’s former Youth League leader Julius Malema was a disaster.
Mbalula said some within the ANC subjected Malema to a disciplinary hearing for the wrong reasons and they had warned against that.
He said Malema had began spilling the beans about how some within the former ruling party secured positions.
“They did get rid of him and that was a disaster,” he said.
Over the years, many political analysts have emphasised that Malema’s suspension from the ANC Youth League negatively impacted the party at the polls as it’s electoral showing continues to drop.
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