EFF leader Julius Malema has vented his opinions on the Pravin Gordhan drama‚ claiming that the finance minister will be arrested and removed from his post. Speaking during a tour of Khayelitsha township in Cape Town‚ on Monday‚ he told residents: “The finance minister is going to be arrested by Zuma’s government.” He said that President Jacob Zuma was forced by pressure from big business to backtrack on his controversial appointment of Des van Rooyen as finance minister and replace him with Gordhan. “When he (Zuma) put Pravin‚ Zuma's people came to me and said we don't want Pravin and we know you guys don't want Pravin.” He suggested there was a plot to create a “cloud” around Gordhan. “And we said we are not going to be part of that. I was informed last week that the Guptas came back for their liquidation case and then they told the liquidators not to worry about liquidation because Pravin is going to be arrested and once Pravin is arrested then he is going to be removed. The argument is going to be that we can't have a minister who is facing serious charges as a minister of finance‚ then he will be removed and they will put a minister of their choice‚” he said. Malema said that Gordhan was “not our favourite but we are happy that there is some sense of stability”.“We have to choose between two devils. One devil is called Pravin and the other devil is called Van Rooyen. Therefore Pravin is a better devil.”He charged that the ruling party and president were willing to collapse the country in order to pursue their own personal interests.“There is nothing we can do when a person has to be arrested by the Hawks‚ by the NPA‚ he has to be arrested and he has to go to court because we have to respect those institutions no matter how filthy and corrupt they are‚” he said.Zuma’s office claiming that rumours about the arrest were untrue concerned Malema.“Zuma must not know who is going to be arrested and who is not going to be arrested. It is not his job. So the day he says the rumours are wrong then he is confirming that he is interfering‚” he said.“That is wrong. Let us allow the law to take its course no matter what the price it comes with. Let us allow it. So let Pravin go and be cleared by the courts. We believe in his innocence. We know there is nothing wrong he has done. We know they want to finish him off because they want that Treasury so that they can steal the money directly from the Reserve Bank‚” he said.During a walkabout in Khayelitsha‚ Malema blasted both the DA and the ANC for poor service delivery.On his arrival he was photographed walking arm-in-arm with a woman wearing a DA T-shirt.During a door to door visit he found wheelchair-bound Lubabalo Pholose‚ a resident of the Taiwan Informal settlement. The 33 year-old lost his mobility in 2000.On his way to Pholose's shack‚ Malema was appalled by stacks of uncollected refuse and portable toilets. Pholose narrated his daily struggle to get to the toilet and access to decent housing."We are here to expose the lies that continue to be told by the DA that when they govern they govern much better‚" said Malema‚ who arrived in a white Mercedes Benz flanked by two bodyguards."I come from a very rural province with a lack of resources but I have never seen rubbish not collected after 40 days. Every 500m you find rubbish‚ you find porta porta. This place here‚ Taiwan‚ started during the era of the ANC when it was in charge‚" he said. Malema promised to lobby business and any willing individual to provide a house for Pholose.-TMG Digital/The Times..