Malema vows to grow EFF
Polokwane – Leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters Julius Malema said on Saturday that the political party is not in it to win it when it comes to the 2016 municipal elections, but rather the aim is to grow the party.
Speaking at a business gala dinner hosted by the EFF ahead of its final rally before the elections on Wednesday, August 3, Malema said: “This is not about winning municipalities but growing the party. To those who want to be mayors at all cost, you are being myopic.”
Malema also told the handful of guests at the event that the EFF should not be rushed and that it still needed time to grow. “The EFF is only three years old. Stop straining and putting pressure on the EFF. We must build it and grow it,” he said.
In sharing some of his thoughts on how the EFF would govern, he told the room that as government it would not seek to put a blanket ban on the private sector, but that the state should lead.
“We are not the enemy of business; we want to partner with business but it must be done in a reasonable manner. Wealth must be shared; we must not allow individuals to be billionaires while majority of the people are poor,” Malema said.