Juju: I'm prepared to give EFF vote to ANC, only if . . .

ECONOMIC Freedom Fighters (EFF) is prepared to go into a coalition with the African National Congress (ANC) on one condition.

EFF leader Julius Malema said: “I'm prepared to give the EFF vote to the ANC, nationally, if it doesn’t get 50%, then I will make one demand, make Floyd Shivambu minister of finance.”

Malema said this during his interview with JJ Tabane on Frank Dialogue on Thursday, 4 April.

His utterances sparked a heated debate on social media, with people questioning Malema’s motive.

On X @Iam_ZwelethuM said: “Not even public enterprise or trade you jumping straight into finance? You are quite ambitious; however, the ANC is unlikely to fall below 50% in this election, at least not in this one.”

@Ihhashi_Turkei said: “The goal is to remove not a share votes! Wow shocked and stunned! Not even a condition for the constitution to be amended to solve their land agenda? They just want the minister of finance nje. Wow.”

EFF has been vocal about the conditions that will make them go on coalitions with other parties.

In their election manifesto, they listed seven pillars that they claimed were non-negotiable.

But recently the party’s secretary-general Marshall Dlamini said the EFF will only agree to a coalition government, if possible, suitors accept its three cardinal pillars, which includes the land expropriation without compensation, free education and the nationalisation of mines.

Dlamini told News24 that those three pillars are the founding rocks of the EFF.

“Anyone who will speak to us must know those cardinal pillars are not negotiable. We are not making any concessions, and we're not preparing for coalitions,” he said.

These are some of the policies that the ANC endorses, highlighting that should the governing party fail to reach its outright majority, the EFF might come to the rescue.

Malema also addressed the attack the party received after the release of the EFF’s election candidate list, where a member of Parliament Naledi Chirwa was placed at number 200, moving from number 30.

The EFF leader said there are 100 women in that list and people don’t talk about them.

“You pretend to talk for women when you talk for an individual. You just became a convenient feminist now,” he said.

He asked why people are not talking about other women who made it on the top 10 on the list of the candidate.

“The 100 women on the list and someone needs to be 200 and who’s that? Why should we undermine democratic outcome of a manufactured crises that doesn’t exists?

“Naledi will never walk the street she’s got a huge potential. Those are the people who are going to lead us. We are nurturing her, and we can't say we want to destroy a person but still have them on the list,” he said.