Julius Sello Malema

When the red boiler-suited Julius Malema took his parliamentary seat in May as leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) everyone knew the political scene had changed for ever...

'There is nothing exciting except a blowing of hot air and a repetition of the things that we have heard before ' the Economic Freedom Fighters' Julius Malema told Africa Confidential...

The ANC's Lindiwe Sisulu hugged the EFF's Julius Malema but former cabinet minister and SACP chief Blade Nzimande blanked him as he walked past...

The figures suggest that some must have gone to the DA but others reverted to the ANC cancelling out to an extent the votes won from it by Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters...

The performance of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) the party of maverick former ANC youth leader Julius Malema is eagerly watched as a barometer of the ANC's condition...

It is this crisis that Julius Malema's EFF party is seeking to exploit...

That has fuelled support for radical politicians such as Julius Malema and his Economic Freedom Fighters...

Yet in the past she had Zuma's full backing when she investigated the former ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema's role in tenders in Limpopo Province and flamboyant former Police Commissioner Bheki Cele's involvement in a leasing deal for a headquarters building in Pretoria (AC Vol 52 No 14 Zuma and the securocrats & Police powers set to expand)...

Sport Minister Fikile Mbalula owes his position at number six to his help in outflanking Zuma's radical critics such as sacked ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema...

Disenchanted ANC voters in shanty towns are unlikely to turn to the centre-right Democratic Alliance (DA) although the leftist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) have some resonance as does their leader Julius Malema who was expelled from the ANC after heading its Youth League and openly criticising Zuma (AC Vol 54 No 20 Political mould starts to break & How the parties will go into 2014)...

Only expelled ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema and his Economic Freedom Fighters are likely to make new inroads into the ANC's support base in areas such as Limpopo Province...