Makhado brigade back in favour
Malema said.
He added: “The (EFF) list does not have any political celebrities. We will announce the lists next week and also say which parties are joining us.”
Meanwhile, the National Freedom Party’s secretarygeneral, Nhlanhla Khubisa, was also at Centurion yesterday to make changes to the party’s candidate lists, which were submitted on Tuesday.
Parties have until March 24 to rectify mistakes and to comply with electoral requirements.
The lists will be made public and objections on candidates can be made to the IEC until April 1. Certificates of participation will be handed over to candidates on April 24. FOUR years ago, they endured the wrath of former ANC Youth League president Julius Malema when he booted them out of an elective youth league conference in Makhado.
Today, the “Makhado brigade”, a coterie of former Limpopo ANCYL leaders who openly defied Malema in 2010, are back in the spotlight.
Limpopo Roads and Transport MEC Lehlogonolo Masoga, ANCYL provincial task team spokeswoman Onicca Moloi, former ANCYL provincial secretary Goodman Mitileni, his ex-deputy Thandi Moraka and former provincial ANCYL treasurer Solly Chego have made the cut on the provincial ANC list of candidates to represent the party in the Limpopo legislature.
As MPLs, the five will be in pole position to become MECs.
They lost their positions to Malema’s supporters after he controversially instructed the police to remove them from the chaotic conference venue.
For challenging Malema’s authority, the five were later subjected to unlawful arrests and expulsion from the youth league, while some disappeared from political radar screens.
Moraka was arrested by traffic police when she fled with documents from the conference. Her case was later struck off the roll.
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela later found that former roads and transport MEC Pinky Kekana – Malema’s political ally at the time – had breached the executive ethics code by ordering Moraka’s unlawful arrest.
A few months later, Malema expelled Masoga, who was the Limpopo ANCYL chairman.
But the brigade’s misfortunes gradually faded away after Malema’s expulsion from the ANC in 2012.