ANC won’t get Malema again
EFF LEADER Julius Malema has reiterated his long-held view that he would never return to the ANC, after he was expelled six years ago.
Instead, Malema said those who thought he would rush back to the ANC now that Jacob Zuma was no longer the president of the Republic and the governing party had another thing coming.
“I will never go back to the ANC. Even if I would be politically persuaded, I would not go back,” he said at a media briefing in Parliament yesterday.
He added that he would rather leave politics or be a political analyst than go back to his former party.
Malema blamed his expulsion from the governing party and his other woes on President Cyril Ramaphosa, former ANC disciplinary committee chairperson Derek Hanekom, Pravin Gordhan and ANC chairperson Gwede Mantashe.
He insisted he would never go back to the place where there were people who caused his suffering.
Malema, his deputy Floyd Shivambu and the late Sindiso Magaqa were hauled before a disciplinary committee chaired by Hanekom for ill-discipline while they were members of the ANC Youth League.
After Malema and Magaqa lost an appeal in a committee, at the time headed by Ramaphosa, he and Shivambu decided to form the EFF, while Magaqa remained in the ANC until he was murdered last year.
“We were a threat to a corrupt ANC and white monopoly capital. They had a marriage of convenience when it came to the youth league,” Malema pointed out.
He recalled the role that Zuma, Ramaphosa, Hanekom and Mantashe had played in their expulsion from the ANCYL.
Malema claimed that Ramaphosa had encouraged them to appeal the decision of the disciplinary committee at the time.
“He (Ramaphosa) wanted to shine and give Zuma the impression that he was on his side by expelling us,” he said.
He said Zuma had underestimated their influence when they called for his removal as ANC president ahead of the 2012 Mangaung conference until the youth league “won all debates” in the ANC’s national general council (NGC)…
“The NGC gave him a wake-up call…”
Malema said Gordhan withheld money for Limpopo after the late public service and administration minister Collins Chabane warned him that the money earmarked to remove Zuma would be coming from that province.
“It was Pravin, Trevor Manuel and their crooks at Sars, the so-called rogue unit, which came after me and took my properties and subjected me to humiliation,” he added.
“Why should I want to go back to the ANC just because Zuma has gone?” he asked.
Malema said those who had humiliated him had hoped that he would be selling loose cigarettes on the streets.
“Little did they know that they were planting a seed. Today, I sit with them in Parliament.”
He said his grandmother had advised him never to return to the ANC. “I never disrespect the personal wishes of my grandmother. Under no circumstances will I go back to the ANC. I will never go back.
“I would rather leave politics and be an analyst at Power FM,” Malema said, eliciting laugher from journalists.
I’d rather leave politics and be an analyst at Power FM