The EFF has a new leadership in the Eastern Cape, with Zilindile Vena heading an all-male top five. But the party’s Commander in Chief took delegates to task, saying the vote was ‘a disrespect from all of you to the women of Eastern Cape’.
EFF leader Julius Malema scolded hundreds of delegates at the party’s third Eastern Cape Provincial People’s Assembly in East London on Sunday, 6 November, for failing to elect a single woman into the top five leadership structure.
a woman as chair, but Mandisa Makesini has since been removed, Malema said. Although Limpopo is yet to have its conference, Malema was concerned by the possibility of all the provinces being led by male chairpersons. “I am not proud of this top five, because I will never be proud of anything that doesn’t have women in it,” Malema said. “It’s a failure to all of you. It’s a disrespect from all of you to the women of Eastern Cape, to the women of South Africa.
Malema said the possibility that the EFF could be led by men across all nine provinces signalled that the party did not “believe in humanity”. “I am not here to fight anyone’s battle; I don’t care who won or lost. I care which gender was excluded in the leadership of the EFF and that is why I represent. All I am part of is defending the image of the EFF,” he said.
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