EFF leader Julius Malema has called for the immediate dismissal of Deputy President Paul Mashatile's VIP Protection Unit.
This after a video surfaced on social media showing what are understood to be members of the unit brutally assaulting motorists on the N1 highway in Gauteng.
During a press conference at Uncle Tom's Hall in Orlando West, Soweto on Thursday, 6 July, Malema said: “South Africa must never be allowed to degenerate into a mafia state, where public sector policing is characterised by violence and abuse of citizens."
He said other parties' campaigns to stop the EFF meant stopping development for black people and when the EFF takes power after the 2024 national elections, it will fulfil its promises.
“For the first time since 1994 the people will begin to taste development. We are the only organisation that is available to you guys. When you want to ask anything, we answer because we believe in accountability,” said Malema.
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He said other parties, including the ANC, have come up with campaigns to stop the EFF because the party kept its promise to get service delivery working in Ekurhuleni.
Malema said it was clear the EFF was an important voice in the global affairs of society and to undermine calls for its presence at BRICS was nothing but political jealousy.
He said during their 10th anniversary month, the EFF will host numerous community meetings to invite people to the celebration. The EFF will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a rally at FNB Stadium on 29 July 2023.
“It was in this hall on the 26 July, 2013 that delegates from all across South Africa gathered to answer the call of 'What Is To Be Done', as the reality dawned upon all activists that the struggle for the liberation of African people had been betrayed.
"The delegates reflected on the prevailing conditions in South Africa, which at the time included massive poverty, landlessness and the unchanged colonial divisions of labour.”
Malema also said the EFF rejects Public Protector Kholeka Gcaleka’s report on the Phala Phala Farm robbery.
“The claim by Gcaleka that there is no conflict of interest in a president engaging in the exchange of millions of foreign currency, without any declaration to the South African Reserve Bank or consideration of the Executive Members Ethics Act, is a sign that a lowly puppet is occupying the Office of the Public Protector,” he said.
Malema said the party will explore legal and legislative measures to revisit the Section 89 Independent Panel Report on the Phala Phala scandal, which was rejected by the ANC caucus in Parliament.
“The report compiled by former Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo was rejected in Parliament under the pretence that the report is being reviewed in the judiciary,” he said.
