THE EFF is willing to discuss coalitions with any political party, including former president Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto Wesizwe (MK) party.
EFF president Julius Malema made these remarks on Friday, 19 April during his engagement with media in Sandton, Joburg.
"Our demands are very simple. They don’t change. We are not far from what needs to happen with many parties. I mean ATM, Azapo, PAC, MK, including the ANC, by the way, on the land question. We even have an agreement with the ANC that we will expropriate land in this hotel without compensation and they have got cold feet,” he said.
He said one of the simplest demands they made was that Die Stem must be removed from the national anthem. The reason, he said, was that Die Stem was a political song that cemented white Afrikaner supremacy.
"They sang this song when they were torturing our people," said Malema.
He said the EFF had shown good leadership wherever it was in governance. He said the Ekurhuleni Municipality was an example of how the party could deliver services to the people.
He said he met Zuma in December 2023 and told him of his plan to form a new party.
He said he asked him to support the EFF instead of forming a new party, but it didn't happen. On the issue of foreigners in Mzansi, Malema said he had never preached in favour of undocumented people.
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“I always say what you deliberately don’t cover and distort. The jobs in South Africa are given to South Africans. The only requirement is a South African ID and a qualification.
“Of course, Zimbabweans will work here. If we believe they will bring skills to our country, we will hire them. That’s how the economies of the world are built.”
Malema reiterated his assertion that Mzansi will have stage 6 load shedding after the elections.
“They are saying load shedding will remain suspended. They are not saying we are done with load shedding. They never told you load shedding is not there. It's there,” he said.
Malema again warned of possible vote rigging by the ANC.
He claimed that the ruling party has party agents everywhere who receive the results before they are announced by the Election Commission of SA.
“The focus now is on the party agents because we have to guard every vote, even the one that is not from the EFF, as long as it’s against the ANC because the ANC will win if it steals something here and there and gets 49,9% that way. Who wins with 49,9%? That's how manipulation happens,” said Malema.
