Cape Town – Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader, Julius Malema, has criticised President Cyril Ramaphosa for being an “absent leader” who is “too busy with his personal businesses to move the country forward”.
Malema said that under Ramaphosa’s “absent leadership”, South Africa and state-owned enterprises, including municipalities and Eskom, had collapsed, leaving the country with “no electricity”.
He said this while speaking at the party’s third provincial assembly at the Olive Centre in KwaZulu-Natal on Sunday.
Malema said the country had no direction and the president was “nowhere to be found”.
He accused the president of being too busy with his Phala-Phala farm business.
He compared the country’s situation to a “headless chicken”.
“You expect this body of yours to function without a head. Have you ever seen a headless chicken? What it does? That’s where we are now,” said Malema.
He said by law, the president of the country was not allowed to do any other job, yet, president Ramaphosa had admitted to abandoning his presidential duties to attend to his farm business. Malema said this, referring to the Phala-Phala saga.
He said the country needed to be “redirected to a proper destination” or “it will turn into another failed state”.
“South Africa will not be worth living in it. These people that you have insulted saying Zimbabweans, saying Nigerians, saying all sorts of things… you are next. Your country is going to become another failed state.
“And when this country becomes another failed state, you are going to leave here into other people’s countries to look for greener pastures,” said Malema.
He said the country must avoid that, adding that nothing will happen “if the ANC gets out of power”.
“South Africa must prosper without the ANC,” said Malema.
He also commended the delegates at the assembly for a peaceful electoral process during the elections of new provincial leaders.
The EFF leader congratulated the more than 1 600 delegates at the assembly for peacefully electing new provincial leaders.
“People are not throwing chairs at each other, and no one has died in the name of the EFF,” said Malema.
Mongezi Twala was elected provincial chairperson, with Thobile Nkosi as his deputy.
Nkululeko Ngubane was elected secretary and Hlengiwe Chiliza as his deputy while Chuma Wakeni took the treasurer position.
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Compiled by Olwethu Mpeshe
