Julius Sello Malema

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...

The newest and most radical opposition party the Economic Freedom Fighters the splinter group led by former ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema is showing strongly five months after its founding congress in August (AC Vol 54 No 16 Tilting at the ANC)...

Opposition on the riseOf the three opposition parties in contention – the Democratic Alliance the radical populist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) of Julius Malema and Mamphela Ramphele's Agang party – the DA will consolidate its position as the largest most successful opposition party...

ANC apparatchiks were furious initially but incorrectly blaming the booing on an orchestrated campaign by Julius Malema and his Economic Freedom Fighters party (AC Vol 54 No 20 Political mould starts to break & How the parties will go into 2014)...

The SACP a political minority with elite privileges through its cross-membership with the ANC continues to back Zuma's presidency leaving the ground on the left to Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters party (AC Vol 54 No 16 Tilting at the ANC)...