Cape Town – EFF leader Julius Malema has criticised attempts to exclude his party from government ahead of the upcoming general elections.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) proposed a “moonshot pact” aimed at preventing a potential coalition between the EFF and the African National Congress (ANC) after the 2024 elections.
Six political parties – IFP, Freedom Front Plus, Action SA, National Freedom Party, United Independent Movement and Spectrum National Party – have agreed to participate in the DA’s “national convention” for the pact.
They said they were getting ready for the “unprecedented opportunity for the people of South Africa to elect a new government”.
Malema expressed confusion over why the DA would want to form the pact without the EFF and suggested that his party’s exclusion was due to its refusal to be controlled by “white monopoly capital”.
“I fail to understand, I want to find out what it is that we did wrong. We hear of a moonshot, moon pact, I don’t know what it is called.
“They didn’t tell me what I did wrong so I can fix it,” he said while briefing the media on Thursday.
He added: “Every political development in this country has the Oppenheimers’ handwriting on it… but there is one thing that they do not control, and that is the EFF. That’s what gives them nightmares.
“[The notion] to ‘keep the EFF out’ comes from there [because] we cannot allow the people we don’t control to have access to power,” he said.
“We are not going to any moon with anyone… we are remaining here. They can go to the moon alone, we are not part of any moon.”
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Compiled by Betha Madhomu
