Malema willing to work with Zuma, but not PA’s Gayton McKenzie

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Cape Town — EFF leader Julius Malema says he would much rather work with former president Jacob Zuma than with Patriotic Alliance (PA) leader Gayton McKenzie.

Malema was in Eldorado Park in Johannesburg as he addressed the members of the community., A community member had asked Malema for his thoughts on an old video clip where McKenzie said he, Kenny Kunene, and Julius Malema, were not the right people to lead South Africa, at the time.

“We believe and we know myself and Kenny and Julius Malema are NOT THE RIGHT PEOPLE TO GOVERN THIS COUNTRY, that’s what I am saying ,we know for a fact that we are not the right people”  he said.

In reponse, McKenzie said that was over a decade ago and that he is now ready for the role.

Malema labelled the PA party as a drug organisation” that was only in politics for the money, The Citizen reported.

“I don’t think he’s a politician; he doesn’t want to be one. He’s in it for the transactions. When they negotiate coalitions in municipalities, they say, ‘we should make R200 million this year.’ So, they’re all about making money and schemes − that’s their focus. They’re really not interested in politics” he said.

Malema said the PA is more concerned with “Nigerian drug lords” keeping the party out of business, not with combating crime.

“Here in Eldorado Park, you just go and elect a councillor of a drug organisation, of gangsters. The president of that organisation says in a debate yesterday ‘the business of drugs has been taken over by Nigerians’.

“He wants us to take over the business of drugs? He doesn’t say ‘we must close down the drugs’. His problem with the Nigerians is that they can no longer sell drugs as leaders of the PA. They want Nigerians to go so that they can sell the drugs. That’s what he said. We are not fighting the drug lord, we are fighting the drugs, they must get out of South Africa. Once the drugs are out of South Africa, there won’t be a drug lord. The problem is crime, not who is committing it.’

Malema also said his party is willing to partner with the MK party, and would, in fact, meet with Zuma after the elections for the two parties to forge a way forward.

“We absolutely have no problem with Zuma doing what he’s doing, he’s got the political right to do that. We are not far apart from MK when it comes to policies, we speak land, empowerment of our people and restoration for the economy to the rightful hands of the owners,” said Malema.

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