ANC leaders must join EFF in saying 'Zuptas must fall': Malema

04 February 2016 - 15:49 By TMG Digital

African National Congress leaders who disagree with Jacob Zuma’s regime have been challenged to join an Economic Freedom Fighters march in Johannesburg on February 9. (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_GB/all.js#xfbml=1"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));WATCH: Get out‚ Guptas – MalemaWATCH: Get out‚ Guptas – Malema Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema says the EFF has declared war against the Gupta family, known supporters of President Jacob Zuma. Watch. Posted by Times LIVE on Thursday, 4 February 2016The planned march coincides with the EFF’s Constitutional Court bid to compel the president to abide by the Public Protector’s ruling on Nkandla.Denouncing the president for his close ties to the influential Gupta family‚ EFF leader Julius Malema told a news briefing in Johannesburg: “The Zuptas must fall”.“The ANC in Mangaung said that when there are serious allegations against its members‚ they will take action. Nothing happens… Zuma has done far worse than (former president Thabo) Mbeki. Why is he not recalled?‚” he charged.“Let ANC in their colours who always condemn the Guptas‚ to come on the 9th and say‚ ‘not in our name’.”“Stop tweeting from your bed. Come tweet from the picket line. Let’s all go to the streets. Let’s show we’re tired of corruption.”In an all-out attack on the president‚ Malema reiterated the party would not stand back from its fight for Zuma to pay back taxpayers for improvements to his private home in KwaZulu-Natal and slammed the president’s sacking of a respected Finance Minister in December.The EFF leader declared South Africa would not become “a failed state under our watch”.“White supremacists are happy that the country is falling apart at hands of black people. We won’t allow Zuma to do that…“This a man is collapsing the country. We’re not scared of being beaten up. We’re prepared to die for protection of the Constitution…“Cowards say it is not the ANC but an individual. What did the ANC do about it?”Malema said his party would not easily enter into a coalition with other political parties‚ notably the Democratic Alliance led by Mmusi Maimane.“We will never join the DA in court. The DA will join us. We will never be led by Maimane. We will lead Maimane.“I can’t be led by someone from church straight into politics.“Even if we’re going to have a coalition with the DA and others‚ we’ll do it on our own terms.”..

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