The EFF is gunning for all ward by-elections in its drive to unseat the ANC.
"We will be participating in all ward by-elections with the sole aim of removing the ruling party from government," said EFF leader Julius Malema.
"Anywhere we find an opportunity to remove the public purse from the hand of the corrupt ANC — we shall never hesitate‚ but strike with revolutionary precision."
Malema was speaking at his party’s HQ in Johannesburg’s Braamfontein on Monday after the EFF’s third plenum in Kempton Park at the weekend. It was held to discuss strategy and forge a way forward for the party’s national plan of action for 2017 under the theme The year of the branch.
"The 3rd national plenum also expressed itself that where the numbers increase in our benefit‚ we shall not only vote with the opposition‚ but we shall also take government‚" Malema said.
The EFF is expected to have four scheduled leadership elective conferences — the Provincial People’s Assembly — in KwaZulu-Natal‚ Eastern Cape‚ North West and Gauteng. This will be to strengthen structures in the provinces and make sure the party is represented in every voting district in preparation for the 2019 general election after it failed to build on the momentum it developed at the ANC’s expense in the 2014 general election.
"Our objective is to reach an agreement that we take municipalities without co-governing. The DA and other parties must allow us to lead government in municipalities as we have allowed them to do so in municipalities and metros like Tshwane‚" said Malema.
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