They say that if Mashatile becomes President he will pull in his friend Julius Malema of the populist Economic Freedom Fighters as his deputy...

The EFF is led by former ANC Youth League President Julius Malema...

Africa Confidential understands that Zuma's strategy is to reverse engineer the new uMkhonto weSizwe (Spear of the Nation MK) party into a post-election alliance headed by Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) with smaller parties associated with the ANC's Radical Economic Transformation (RET) faction such as the African Transformation Movement (ATM) and the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC)...

There is also a divide between those who favour a coalition with Julius Malema's populist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and those who want closer ties with the centrist Democratic Alliance (DA) of John Steenhuisen...

Julius Malema who has led the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) since he was expelled from the ANC called for ties with Israel to be severed due to its 'relentless oppression of the Palestinian people'...

Tibor Nagy the former US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs has remarked that Biya and President Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea were watching Gabon nervously while Julius Malema leader of South Africa's radical Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has been tweeting in French pleading with Cameroonians to get on with throwing out Biya...

His friends include the fiery leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Julius Malema and ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula – both former leaders of the ANC Youth League – as well as former Gauteng Premier Tokyo Sexwale...