EFF leader Julius Malema has a message for all plotting to start their own political parties: do not do it.
Malema says even if he were to be expelled from the EFF, which is 10 years into existence this month, he would never start another party.
According to Malema, starting the EFF proved not an easy task, especially for someone like him who was used to an existing and old political formation that is the ANC.
The former ANC Youth League president formed the EFF in 2013 following his expulsion from the ruling party a year earlier.
The party contested elections for the first time just a year after formation in 2014 when it became the third-biggest party in the National Assembly.
On July 29, the party will host its biggest rally yet to celebrate a decade of changing the country’s political landscape, a journey Malema admitted was the toughest in his political career.
“One of the lessons I learned is that I will never form another political party. I will never ever do that, it is the most difficult thing ever,” he told the media in Soweto.
“It is so frustrating. I will never ever repeat that. It is extremely taxing. I see comrades all the time saying they are starting political parties. I was marching along Carl Niehaus the other day [and] he asked ‘how do you do it’, and I told him that ‘it is very difficult my chief, hang in there, maybe you will get it right someday’.
“It took ANC 86 years to get to 1994, you look at that and you see that this thing is not easy.”
Malema called on those close to expelled former ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule to discourage him from forming a party of his own.
“If someone was to say to me he wants to form a party like Ace Magashule is threatening to form a party, whoever has the access to that guy just tell him the little resources he has remaining, he must look for a plot and do goat farming and have peace.”
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