Publications
Partners
The problem with starting your own political party is the need to remind everyone that it is yours to run as you please. This week EFF leader Julius Malema forced party MPs to publicly apologise for failing to attend a parliamentary meeting.
His deputy, Floyd Shivambu, only attended 10 out of 55 (18%). Not exactly role models of commitment.
The letter's inappropriate insinuations have forced our movement into a defensive stance, detracting our members from the immediate task of doing door-to-door because they must now defend their movement from rubbish. In situations where we must choose between an individual and…
— Julius Sello Malema (@Julius_S_Malema) March 6, 2024
READ: Dashiki | Malema left with egg (and snot) on his face at his Moses Mabhida Stadium rally
A politician who earns R1.2 million per year has pleaded poverty as she fights for R10 million to which she claims she is entitled. EFF MP Busi Mkhwebane, the former inept Public Protector, has filed court papers seeking the cash. She has threatened to sue the Office of the Public Protector if it does not cough up.
She now says she is “suffering”. Can someone give the poor soul a R350 grant?
READ: Siyahleba | Zodwa Wabantu: From stripper-dancer to politician
No one who understands South African politics realistically expects Bosa leader Mmusi Maimane to be our next president, despite his announcement that he was running for that office. However, the Dobsonville priest did score one over his critics this week when he tantalisingly said he was going to speak on the future of Bosa.
Most of his critics thought he had failed to amass enough signatures to register to appear on the ballot paper. Some even asked whether he was going back to modelling. Yet, to a full media turnout, Maimane announced that he had received double the required signatures.
