Julius Malema is taking his Freedom Day celebrations into President Jacob Zuma's den today despite a hostile reception in KwaZulu-Natal earlier this week.
The Economic Freedom Fighters leader is to address a rally in Umlazi township southwest of Durban - in a week in which he was booed and jeered on two occasions in the city.
Security is expected to be tight today as the EFF tries to ensure that only its supporters enter the stadium.
On Thursday Malema and his supporters had to leave a University of KwaZulu-Natal hall when their meeting was disrupted by ANC-aligned students.
ANC supporters booed Malema again when he visited the Durban University of Technology on Friday.
Only Malema's backers were allowed into the small lecture hall where he spoke, but when Malema left the building, students in ANC T-shirts booed him to his car.
On Friday Malema was escorted by armed policemen in riot gear.
Malema beefed up his own security, travelling with at least eight bodyguards instead of the usual two.
Malema received similar treatment at Inanda, north of Durban, on Wednesday, when ANC backers attempted to disrupt his meeting. They were blocked by police.
As Malema spoke inside the DUT lecture hall, ANC supporters held their own meeting on the university's lawns.
Malema labelled the ANC gathering "gymnastics".
He told his supporters that the ANC was trying to make KwaZulu-Natal a no-go area for other opposition parties.
"On Sunday we are celebrating freedom. Key among the principles of freedom means a freedom of movement, a freedom of expression and freedom of association," he said.
Malema also visited informal settlements in Malukazi and Sydenham and addressed a small meeting at a transit camp in Lamontville.
The EFF's premier candidate in KwaZulu-Natal, Vusi Khoza, acted as his interpreter at all meetings in informal settlements as Malema struggles to speakZulu.
Khoza's services were not needed when Malema spoke to the students - in English.
Malema appears to be warming to the idea of working more closely with the ANC.
He has made his strongest hint yet that he would be open to coalition talks in provinces where the ANC is unable to get enough votes to form a government.
Reports last week suggested that the EFF was likely to form a coalition with the DA in Gauteng.
However, speaking in QwaQwa in the Free State last weekend, Malema expressed a soft spot for his former political home.
"We can differ with the ANC, but we are brothers," he said. "We don't want this white party."
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