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Johannesburg — Julius Malema officially launched his new political organisation, the Economic Freedom Fighters yesterday.
Malema said it was agreed by members that the EFF would be a radical leftist movement that will look to contest the 2014 elections. “We are not like Agang [SA] and all of them … We have a completely different plan.”
The former ANC Youth League president said the EFF will focus on land expropriation and promised that white South Africans “are more than welcome to join us in the redistribution of land and wealth in South Africa”.
Malema said: “This land is too big. There is nobody who will be driven to the sea. We will share, black and white. But failure to share means you will be forced to share.
“We all belong here, but we all have to show proof that we belong here. Black people have nothing to show. Therefore we must give them something to show so they can say proudly: this is our land, this is our country.”
While he lashed out at the ANC, he said that the EFF’s “number one enemy” is Helen Zille’s Democratic Alliance as “they support monopoly capital”.
“We will never go to bed with [the DA],” Malema said.
He also took aim at the SABC, saying it was run at Luthuli House, the ANC’s headquarters. “Comrades in the SABC operate like its the 80’s . . . [they are] scared they are going to be fired,” Malema said.
He said that high profile members of government will help the EFF “from within” while the organisation also consults with unions within Cosatu.
Malema was speaking at a news conference in Braamfontein.
Meanwhile, Malema will lose another property when his house in Flora Park, Polokwane, goes under the hammer in two weeks’ time, The Sowetan reported yesterday. Auctioneer Aaggie Stroh, of Eli Stroh Properties, said the house was expected to raise between R1m and R1,5m.“I can confirm that Malema’s house at 23 Mopani Street at Flora Park will be on auction on 23 July.”
He said the house was “very nice and clean” but the economic climate could affect its value. The SA Revenue Service (Sars) has attached properties owned by Malema in order to recoup R16m he owes.
His household goods were sold for R54 000 in February and in mid-May his incomplete mansion was sold for R5,9m, R2,3m more than he paid for it in 2009.
In June a farm belonging to him was sold for R2,5m.
Stroh was unable to confirm whether another house of Malema’s in Seshego, Polokwane, where his grandmother lives, would also come up for auction. — Sapa
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