‘Sell-out’ ANC has no reason to work with DA, FF Plus in GNU – Malema

JOHANNESBURG - Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has continued to label the African National Congress (ANC) as a sell-out, insisting that there is no need for the party to work alongside the Democratic Alliance (DA) or Freedom Front (FF) Plus in the Government of National Unity (GNU).

Malema was speaking at a public lecture at Rhodes University on Monday night where he told students that the ANC, EFF, and the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party belonged to the same family.

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The red berets and former president Jacob Zuma’s MK Party are both splinters from the former liberation movement.

The two organisations are also not part of the ANC-led GNU, which is made up of nine parties, including the DA and FF Plus.

Malema said claims that his party made unreasonable demands during coalition talks were false.

"When people have sold out, they will say all kinds of things they want to say, but it's not true. We’ve never made unreasonable demands. 

"One of the reasonable demands we made in 2016 was that Zuma must resign as a president before we give the ANC our votes - they refused. In this year’s negotiations, we said we are not even asking for your president to resign."