Pravin Gordhan - a 'political bully' unable to accept 'political punches' from EFF leaders
6 February 2019
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan's defamation and crimen injuria charges against the EFF are an attempt to silence the party, EFF president Julius Malema and his deputy Floyd Shivambu, said.
"This application is nothing other than a thinly veiled attempt by Mr Gordhan to silence me and the deputy president of the EFF, Mr Floyd Shivambu. By extension, Mr Gordhan seeks to silence the EFF," Malema said in an affidavit.
In November 2018, Malema spoke outside the Zondo commission of inquiry into state capture, where he referred to Gordhan as a "dog of white monopoly capital (WMC)" and requested EFF members and supporters to be "ready for war".
He also took aim at Gordhan's daughter Anisha, claiming the National Treasury and other government departments awarded contracts to her as a result of her father's position in the government.