After waiting in line for more than over half an hour alongside his wife, Mantoa, Malema expressed confidence that the EFF would secure at least 65% of the votes in Seshego.
“We have done everything humanly possible. We have gone to every corner of SA. The leadership and members of the EFF were on the ground. The people have heard the message of the EFF and they have received it very well. South Africans. The youth of SA must come out in their numbers. This is about their future. This is about them,” said Malema. could not leave crucial issues of governance in the hands of the elderly.
“I hope wherever the young people are, they are readying themselves to close on a high note,” said Malema. At the voting station where Malema was voting, scores of elderly people had arrived to cast their votes since the early morning, some holding on to their old green ID books.After casting his vote, Malema left the EFF tent and Malema in excitement. She told the EFF leader that she knew him well as he had grown up in front of her in Seshego.
Malema gave her a warm reception before she returned to the ANC camp that was singing loudly opposite the EFF, trying to drown out the EFF songs. As Malema left and headed to his late grandmother's house a street away, an elderly man clad in a red EFF T-shirt walked behind his convoy, beaming happily that he had seen Malema.
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