ANALYSIS: President Julius Malema? By Ferial Haffajee ferialhaffajee
By Sunday, EFF leader Julius Malema had rebuffed ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule’s overtures. On Friday, Magashule toldthat he had invited Malema back into the fold; by Sunday Malema declared the ANC dead and said he wasn’t interested in a join-up.
The EFF is the only one of the top three parties showing gains in all the opinion polls. In the latest Ipsos poll reported by, the ANC is down to 57% from the 61% it notched up in the agency’s previous outcome a few weeks ago; the DA is down to 15% although the party’s own polls show that Ipsos undercounts the official opposition party.
How is he going to get there? The EFF, itself, is likely to get stuck in the teens of electoral support, according to most pollsters and analysts. Its radical message does not have majority support but its populist posturing will get more and more popular if the economy does not begin to work for a broader range of South Africans.
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