Sihle Lonzi, president of the EFF Student Command, has appealed to Julius Malema to protect the party from a MK party takeover.
There are reports that MK party leader Jacob Zuma tried to convince Julius Malema to close the EFF.The president of the Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command has appealed to Julius Malema to protect the party from being swallowed up by the uMkhonto weSizwe party.
His remarks come after revelations that the MK party’s president Jacob Zuma and the EFF’s former national chairperson Dali Mpofu had invited Malema for a meeting to convince him to close down the EFF and move its support to the MK party. “The middle class and the poorest of the poor said go and form the EFF; they did not call you to a boardroom,” he said.He also said the student movement would be disappointed if the EFF were to close down.
“The Marikana widows did not ask you to form the EFF so you can save the ANC. They wanted you to form the EFF so you can govern South Africa and become an alternative.”
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