This comes after the ANC opted for a government of national unity. The party failed to secure majority votes in the general election. This is where, instead of forming a coalition with certain parties, all those who made it to parliament would be part of it.
Shivambu was speaking at the EFF central elections task force meeting on Friday. He compared the GNU to the government formed after the 1994 general elections.
He said the government, which was led by then President Nelson Mandela, saw ministerial positions being filled by people from the apartheid establishment. And the EFF was trying to prevent such from happening again in the country.
Shivambu said they were not desperate for government positions. They would sit in parliament alongside the DA and would not budge into forming any part of government with the DA.
Puppet parties
“We think now, through fair observation and what got to happen with the DA and all these minority white parties, they represent that agenda. That is why the beneficiaries of the white capitalists and apartheid colonial establishment exclusively funded the DA and all these puppet parties,” said Shivambu.
He claimed that hundreds of millions have been invested in the DA to fight the ruling party and the EFF. And this is just one of the reasons he will not share power with the party.
He asserted that there is no way that they would sit alongside the people who used colonialism and apartheid to unlawfully benefit in the country.
“If the ANC wants to choose that route, they can go ahead and do what they did in 1994. And we know what are the consequences of what happened in 1994. Black people and Africans, in particular, remain on the margins of economic participation in South Africa.
Racism and poverty remain
“Black people, more or less, stay in the same spaces that they lived in. This was when apartheid had segregated black people to inferior spaces. It’s still a lived reality,” said Shivambu.
He added that racism and poverty remain realities and will continue under the GNU. The land issue should be at the centre of discussion about what unites everyone in the GNU, he said.
Shivambu said it needs to be remembered that the EFF is not just a protest movement. It is a government in the making. It has a special aim to take over political power, the state, and govern on behalf of South Africans.
