“The EFF can never be closed in a boardroom” – EFFSC Sihle Lonzi

Sihle Lonzi

Cape Town — Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command (EFFSC) President, Sihle Lonzi, praised EFF leader, Julius Malema, for not closing the party to join forces with Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party.

Speaking during the EFF’s National People’s Assembly (NPA) this past weekend, Lonzi thanked Malema for not selling the party and claimed that the EFF was not formed in a boardroom and would not be closed in one, and discussions to close the organisation was not ideal.

“Commander-in-chief, we want to thank you and your leadership for refusing to close this organisation called the EFF. When they called you to the boardroom and presented presentations to you and gave you essays trying to justify why the EFF must be closed, you put your foot down and said, ‘Never in my name will I allow the EFF to be liquidated,'” he said.

He said the EFF was not formed in a boardroom, but in Uncle Tom’s in Soweto where petrol attendants, domestic workers and middle-class South Africans called for the formation of the party.

“This organisation can’t be closed in a boardroom, it was never formed in a boardroom. What will we say to the Marikana widows who came to you and said, we want an alternative to the ANC? The ANC has killed our husbands, the ANC has shot and killed the future of our children. Come and be an alternative to the ANC to the Marikana widows. They did not ask you to form the EFF so that you can save the ANC, that is not the mandate they gave you. They asked you to form the EFF so you can govern South Africa and be an alternative,” he said.

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He criticised those former EFF members who jumped ship to join the MK Party, saying they would be judged harshly by history and those who find expression in the party’s ideals.

“What will we say to the Fees Must Fall generation when the police were shooting them when the police were kicking them out of institutions of higher learning, it was the EFF that stood with them. What will we say to them if we must liquidate this organisation,” he said.
Lonzi received great support from the EFF delegates, where he also kept an eye out for workers who were insourced by the EFF.

“What will we say to the workers that the EFF students insourced command? What will we say to them when they are now being paid higher wages, when they can now study, and bring their children, to their institutions and get the same privileges as doctors, professors and academic staff? How will we explain to them that this organisation is now closed in the boardroom?” he added.

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