According to the EFF’s final candidate list, that means EFF Fallists including Naledi Chirwa, Peter Keetse and Vuyani Pambo and ANC Fallist Nompendulo Mkhatshwa were likely to become MPs.
A few members of the Fallist movement, born of the #FeesMustFall protests, will become first-time MPs.With almost nine out of every 10 votes counted after lunch on Friday it looked as if a few members of the Fallist movement were set to become MPs.
The ANC was leading the race with about 57.29% of the vote, and the EFF trailed in third position with 10.29%, which - according to the- translated into 230 seats for the ANC and 42 for the EFF in parliament. Keetse is the president of the EFF student command and a civil engineering student at the University of Johannesburg."We knew from the beginning, because we have long diagnosed that nothing must ever be said about us [students] without us.
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