Malema says EFF will enter GNU if ANC removes DA, accuses DA of manipulating Trump

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Cape Town – EFF leader Julius Malema has claimed that the party is close to joining the government of national unity (GNU) if the ANC removes the DA, accusing the opposition party of provoking the US threat over the Expropriation Act.

Malema said that the DA, which opposes the Act, has sought external intervention from the US to undermine South Africa’s sovereignty.

He emphasised that the EFF is ready to partner with the ANC once the DA is excluded, and reiterated the party’s commitment to land expropriation without compensation, despite US President Donald Trump’s threats to withdraw funding over the policy.

“We’ve made it clear that we are ready to work with the ANC in the GNU, but we are not prepared to work with the party that killed Chris Hani.

“We can’t do it [enter the GNU] with the people who are advocating that every progressive policy must not be implemented,” he said during a media briefing on Monday.

“That’s why you’ve got this noise from [US President] Donald Trump. They [the DA] are at the centre of that. They thought they were going to bully the ANC in that GNU and the ANC would develop cold feet. The ANC is pushing forward. They [DA] now are seeking external intervention which seeks to undermine the sovereignty of South Africa.

“The ANC must know we are just outside — we are at the doorstep. Once they remove the DA and they want a partner, we are in. There is no government that is going to collapse here because Helen Zille says so.”

The DA denied Malema’s claims, insisting it did not ask Trump to intervene.

“That’s not the case, the DA has not urged Trump to take away any grants or funding to South Africa. The utterances by Malema are unfounded and false,” Times Live quoted the DA as saying.

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