Cape Town — ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has accused EFF leader Julius Malema and his party of stealing his ANC’s ideas and implementing them as their own.
He alleged that Malema stole the idea of the cardinal pillars from the ANC.
“They stole our ideas. Malema ran with them, opened a party and says seven cardinal pillars points. That was the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) resolution.
“As much it was drafted by Floyd [Shivambu], he ran with it and claimed it as his own. We know those cardinal pillars points were drafted by Floyd for the ANCYL conference and were adopted. You called for economic emancipation and economic freedom in our lifetime. He ran with it and they formed a political party,” Mbalula said.
Mbalula said this while addressing the audience of an ANC Youth League fundraising breakfast.
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According to Times Live, Malema and Shivambu formed the EFF in 2013 after they were suspended from the ANC.
Shivambu was suspended from the ruling party in 2012 after the expulsion of Malema, who was then ANCYL president. The pair were given the boot for breaching party rules, the report said.
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