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EFF Secretary-General Marshal Dlamini speaks during a party event.
EFF Secretary-General Marshall Dlamini says they will use the national conference to come up with a programme of action that will help the party rebuild after losing support in the May 2024 election.
“It’s not just EFF KZN that lost. It’s a EFF in South Africa that lost votes. That is why this (dedication) here to reflect on that, but to come to the National People’s Assembly to deal with the issues of elections, which we say what we do we do as an organisation? How do we rebuild in KZN? But the people of KZN must be rest assured that EFF is here to stay, this is their organisation. We’re going to rebuild; we are going to defend; we are going to go and regain our votes, but we’re not going to do that in panic. We’re going to be guided by the National Assembly that is going to give us a program of action for the next five years, which will talk to the 2026 local elections including the 2029 national election,” says Dlamini.
speaking at the EFF’s Gauteng provincial general assembly, leader Julius Malema says that the party’s leadership was warned of an electoral decline in KZN, ahead of the May 29 elections as a result of infiltration within the party.
The EFF which received close to 10% of support in the 2019 elections, dropped by two percentage points in the elections in KZN following the emergence of uMkhonto weSizwe Party.
KZN is the same province that its former EFF Deputy President Floyd Shivambu was deployed to.
Addressing party delegates at the Gauteng Provincial General Assembly in Benoni, Malema says that the EFF did all that it could to intervene in the province.
“As an intervention, we even went as far as carefully framing the removal of the head of this organizational decay from KwaZulu-Natal and saying that he would be supported by the Secretary-General while redeploying him to the Eastern Cape where organizational work had already been consolidated. These are the lengths we went to protect the dignity of someone who goes around today claiming that he was ill-treated in the EFF,” says Malema.
Malema also reflected on those he said betrayed the party, adding infiltration within the ranks started long before the recent exodus of high-ranking members.
EFF| Malema speaks on infiltration amid exodus of high-ranking members
Meanwhile, Dlamini says the party will not provide any support to one of their leaders deployed in the Nongoma Local Municipality in northern KwaZulu-Natal.
Dlamini was speaking on the sidelines of the party’s General Assembly in Durban.
The event comes ahead of the party’s national conference in December.
The leader in question, alongside three others, was arrested on Friday and will appear in the Nongoma Magistrates Court on Monday.
Dlamini says while it’s not clear at this stage what the charges are, the party will not tolerate members who are involved in corrupt activities.
“We are not interfering. The Hawks are doing what they have to do. He must go and answer for himself. He’s deployed to make sure that the municipality runs on behalf of our people in Nongoma. There’s services to be delivered. So, if he’s involved in something else, that’s his own business. Be rest assured, the EFF in KZN and nationally will never interfere with that because ours is to make sure that we deploy the best of the best – corrupt-free people that are transparent. People who are obsessed with service delivery and to deliver for communities. So, we will allow that process to unfold,” he said.
