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CAPE TOWN — Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema has lashed out at billionaire businessman Johann Rupert and blames him for his troubles with the taxman.According to the Sunday Times, Malema told a group of supporters at a rally in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, that “Rupert and friends” controlled the ANC and the Democratic Alliance.
He reportedly said Rupert had ordered the ANC to deal with him while he was head of the ANC Youth League and that the businessman controlled the South African Revenue Services.
The EFF reportedly requested to meet Rupert in February but was turned down. Rupert’s office is said to have told Malema that he did not fund political parties.
Meanwhile, the EFF leader is confident about the list of candidates the party has submitted to the Electoral Commission of SA (IEC), he said yesterday.
“There won’t be a province where we won’t be in charge. The leadership we have today will have the capacity to address the issues of the people.
“There is no chair that we are not contesting this year. It is only us and the ANC that has 830 candidates listed,” he said.
Some of the listed candidates were members of other political parties that would not be contesting the elections independently, he said.
Those parties included the Socialist Party of Azania and the Black Consciousness Party (BCP). A DA Limpopo MPL Meisie Kennedy was also among the Economic Freedom Fighters candidates.
Members of the Sopa and BCP present at the announcement of the listed candidates said they aligned with the EFF because they had common ideologies, and the party’s struggle for land redistribution and economic freedom resonated with their own parties’ vision. — News24/Sapa.
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