Malema Golf is ours, its just not registered in our name: EFF

26 January 2015 - 12:42 By Times LIVE
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Steering column of the Golf 7 GTI
Steering column of the Golf 7 GTI
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The Economic Freedom Fighters has released a statement explaining that a Golf 6 was registered privately, because it couldn't be registered as belonging to the political organisation.

According to Sapa City Press reported that, "an invoice for R377,500 for a grey Golf GTI Edition 35 DSG with 25,000km on the clock was made out to the EFF HQ on September 3 from a dealership in Polokwane."

It was apparently paid for on 8 September from an EFF account.

The report claims that EFF members said that the car was bought for the party's leader, Julius Malema, using party funds.

Rather than being registered as an official EFF car, it was "registered in the name of a private company, Voorsprong Trading and Projects, whose active director is Jimmy Matlebyane, a 22-year-old student from Seshego. The previous director was another student Tebatso Malema, understood to be Malema's cousin," according to the report.

The EFF has responded to the report by saying the car belongs to the organisation, but had to be registered privately.

"The car was supposed to be registered with the Traffic department and they advised that as a political organisation, we are not eligible for registering the car. The car was therefore registered privately, while the organisation held all the rights to the car. The car belongs to the EFF and our Asset Register makes that very clear," The EFF said in a statement.

"As an organisation, we have made enquiries and will continue to make enquiries concerning the registration of the car directly because in previous attempts, we could not be given an opportunity to do sp. We however would not use a car which was not registered with the traffic department," the EFF said.

The party expressed concern over the report as it believes such reports may compromise the party's security.

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