By Zukile Majova
Political Editor
- EFF leader Julius Malema accuses Jacob Zuma of betrayal, vowing to oppose the MK party’s attempts to recruit EFF supporters and leaders.
- Facing internal pressure and recent defections, Malema is focused on strengthening the EFF before the upcoming elective conference next month.
The gloves are well and truly off as EFF president Julius Malema has threatened to fight Jacob Zuma and his MK party.
Malema, who has previously portrayed himself as a friend of Zuma, now says Zuma betrayed him and pretended to be his friend while stabbing him in the back.
Ironically Zuma’s name ‘Gedleyihlekisa’ means the one who laughs with you while stabbing you in the back.
“I can’t be threatened by Zuma. No. I defeated Zuma,” said Malema on Wednesday.
“Zuma thought he buried me, he expelled me from the ANC for comparing him with Thabo Mbeki. And for saying there is a regime change, which actually happened in Botswana now.
“I was guilty for that and I was expelled from the ANC by Zuma and Ramaphosa was used as an instrument.”
Malema sees the MK party’s recruitment of EFF leaders and its general members and supporters as Zuma’s way of inviting him to yet another showdown.
“He is inviting me back to fight with him and I will do it, and I will do it with ease.
“I am not scared of Zuma and all of his people who are working with him.
“There is no way that anyone is going to threaten the existence of the EFF and that person becomes a friend.”
The EFF leader, who has created the impression that the MK party and the EFF could form a bulwark against the ANC and DA coalition, said it’s time to cut ties with back stabbers.
“People keep on stabbing you in the back and then when they meet you in public they want you to be smiling and all of that. No no no, keep your distance.
“Let’s just know we are not together, let’s do our own separate things and let’s build our own organisations.”
Malema is under pressure to rally EFF members behind a new vision ahead of the party’s elective conference next month.
The party recently lost its deputy president, Floyd Shivambu, who defected to the MK party with a number of EFF MPs and the party is battling to win public support during municipal by-elections.
Pictured above: Julius Malema.
Source: X
