EFFORTPOST The great 2013 schism of the ANC (African National Congress) party - the Transformation of the ANC Youth League into the EFF (Economic Freedom Fighters).

Greetings Dramastrags!

For those of you who have even a cursory understanding of modern South African politics, or who have been forced by Aevann mandated mindrape sessions to be forced to read every single word of my terminal longposting, you would have been made aware of the 3 largest viable political parties in modern RSA.

The dominant ANC, the party of the Mandela Administration, which has dominated the country for the past 30 years. The DA (Democratic Alliance), the party closest to resembling a more economic left-wing Yank Democrats party, and least corrupt of the bunch (low low bar in RSA), which is sometimes called the coloured party as they have dominated the Western Cape and Cape Town, and is the only party with diverse racial demographics, so coloured is a shitty attempt at a joke pun referring to both the race coloured and the ethnic diversity of the party makeup.

WHAT IS THE EFF:

And finally the 3rd in line is the poster child for modern RSA political r-sluration, and civil r-sluration in general. The EFF can best be described as a far-left, pan-Africanist and Marxist–Leninist political party. But the road to how they got formed is pretty fricking dramatic and hilarious because Julias Malema has been the undisputed clown of the country for nearly 20 years now.

Much like Trump, Malema found his rise in infamy due to coverage by the mainstream media of South AFrica, with liberal and wingcucks histronically going on about how his rise to power as the end times, yet when the lowest common men in South African society heard his words and stupid antics, they liked what they heard. Thus, the more the mainstream political media tried to portray him as a madman - the more the black youth liked what they heard to say.

There are many striking parallels between the 2015 Trump pre-election coverage and Malema rise to power, though Malema's fame was 3-4 years in the making rather than 1 year. There are also great differences, but the similarity has to do with the fact that the more media tried to fuel his evil and supposed undesirability, the more his appeal and cult of personality grew.

It's also important that it was both black pro-ANC mainstream party media and white liberal media trying to assasinate his character, because Malema was a great internal party division threat, and had made many political rivals and enemies as the ANC Youth League leader, within the ANC main party itself.

Today, I wanna talk about Juju Malema, his rise to power, and the creation of his party, the EFF.

Because holy shit this guy is fricking hilarious, even if he's gonna me!

ANC YOUTH LEAGUE:

The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) is the youth wing of the ANC, and had been their basic recruitment arm since the apartheid days way back in 1960, of course in its modern incarnation it was more of an indoctrination club, and a connections between powerful people set to inherit the government positions by the elder folk of the mainstream ANC party.

Yet in spite of that, it's founding was sincere. The idea of the formation of the ANC youth league started in 1943, in Orlando, Soweto at Walter Sisulu's house by Anton Lembede, A.P. Mda, Jordan Ngubane, Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo (the biggest and most famous black activist leaders) . Its founders felt that ANC was dominated by conservative and older generation who cannot relate to the youth. Anyways that' not important.

What's significant if we fast forward all the way to 2008, was the election of Julius Malema in April 2008, which was initially disputed after a bitterly contested election with another dude called Saki Mofokeng. And it was a pretty close affair -

https://mg.co.za/article/2008-04-07-malema-elected-as-new-ancyl-leader/

By this point the RSA public both black and white had no idea who Malema was, but political commentators and other equally very boring experts had noted that he was an extremely radical individual, and predicted that a massive schism could be in the future of the ANC, if this Malema's views became mainstream with the new generation of ANC in the Youth League - and holy shit was the predictions right less than 4 years later.

"M&Gthat Zikalala's opposition to Malema as the league's next president had nothing to do with his loyalty to Zuma, but more to do with his alienation from the current ANCYL leadership." Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeee

Anyways up until his most infamous outburst in 2010 against the BBC journ*list whom tried to ask him about hi support and praise for Robert Mugabe as a fellow lar-leftist despite the cataclysmic events ongoing in Zimbabwe, like the Hyperinflation and the fact that nearly 10 million zimbabweans had fled to RSA illegally to literally not starve to death, Juju Malema famously had an outburst where he chased the BBC journ*list out.

This moment in 2010 was an unprecedented lack of professionalism, and like Trump in burgerland, landed him in the spotlight where political commentators rifled through his life and views to find out what the man was about - they found him to be intensely abbrasive and radical, against mainstream ANC standards.

Yet the more his personality and insane words came to light to the general public, the more his popularity grew from the black youths all across RSA whom were in dire pocerty and disenfranchised by ANC incompetence and after 15 years of post-Apartheid rule still languished in unemployment and squalor. Malema channeled this discontent not just against the ANC's general national corruption and incompetence, but also racially against south african whites.

Between 2008-2010 he steadily grew, but it was post 2010 where his influence and popularity grew at an unprecedented pace - with the usual histronics that tribal warfare would be caused by his ethnic inflammatory remarks and populist rethoric.

MALEMA CREATES DIVISION IN THE ANC:

By the end of November 2011, the rest of the mainstream ANC party was getting pissed at Juluis Malema, as his outrageous behaviour and statements was causing the ANC deep embarrasment. They found him guilty of provoking divisions within the ruling party and of bringing the organisation into disrepute, and suspended him for five years from being able to work as an ANC member.

https://www.news24.com/News24/Julius-Malema-suspended-for-5-years-20111110

The specific flashpoint which broke the camel's back, was his remarks on supporting sedition against the democratic government of then Botswana, in order cause a regime change into a communist government. Such open threats against a country which was strong ANC ally, and RSA trading partner caused a severe diplomatic incident with Botswana.

MALEMA FIGHTS SUSPENSION:

Our boi Malema was a true drama queen and would not take anything lying down, he fought the suspension up until the very last bitter end, through the ANC regulation appeal's process.

https://mg.co.za/article/2012-04-24-malema-expelled/

His public tantrums and continual lack of respect for the ANC process got to such a point, that the ANC mainstream finally snapped and changed his suspension into total expulsion. Basically telling him to please frick off

"Subsequent appeal processes changed the suspension to expulsion. On 24 April 2012 the appeal process ended when the National Disciplinary Committee of Appeal confirmed Malema's expulsion with immediate effect."

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Julius Malema's expulsion from the ANC has been upheld, the ruling party's national disciplinary committee of appeals announced on Tuesday.

Late on Tuesday evening committee chairperson Cyril Ramaphosa (this guy will become president later ) said Malema's appeal against his expulsion, which was handed down in February, was dismissed. This marks the formal end to disciplinary proceedings against the controversial youth leader, which began in August last year.

Malema was originally found guilty by the national disciplinary committee (NDC) of sowing divisions within the ruling party in November last year and was sentenced to a five-year suspension from the ANC. He was found to have done so by unfavourably comparing the leadership style of President Jacob Zuma to that of former president Thabo Mbeki, and for remarks on bringing about regime change in Botswana.

His suspension was turned into an expulsion after Malema appealed the sentence and the NDCA granted the young firebrand and the ANC the opportunity to argue in mitigation of the original sentence. (basically he rolled a 1 in Charisma )

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ANC YOUTH LEAGUE MINI CONTROVESIES:

SUPPORT FOR JACOB ZUMA IN 2008:

Among the shitload of controvesies Malema generated while he was still the leader of the ANC Youth League, or rather the manner in which he voiced his support.

The Youth League generated significant controversy in 2008 when Malema publicly declared its willingness to use violence to prevent Jacob Zuma's being prosecuted for corruption charges, stating that the Youth League was "prepared to take up arms and kill for Zuma". In further remarks, Julius Malema has called for the elimination of so-called "counter-revolutionary" forces, which include the largest opposition party, the Democratic Alliance. This statement would make the DA permanent enemies of him and the future EFF since.

https://mg.co.za/article/2008-07-02-malema-wont-withdraw-kill-for-zuma-statement/

INSULTS AGAINST HELEN ZILLE IN 2009:

In 2009 Juju continued to make statements which have drawn significant public criticism, and the ANC has on occasion distanced itself from Malema's remarks. The ANC specifically distanced themselves from Malema insulting Helen Zille.

The context of this was Helen of the DA called out Jacob Zuma for being a womanizer, which in turned procted a real nutcase response from Malema which was really undiplomatic

when https://mg.co.za/article/2009-05-12-anc-youth-league-slams-fake-racist-girl-zille/

Right so even fricking FURTHER context - the story and background for this public spat goes like this:

In 2006 Jacob Zuma was on the rise as a political power to dethrone Mbeki as president, but prior to Malema in 2006, he was the most controversial figure in politics. His most infamous Trump-moment was when in 2006 he made the remark that you can cure AIDS by simply taking a shower, insinuating that taking precaution to prevent the spread of AIDS was not needed. This came during the height of the South African AIDS epidemic, which caulsed some REAL fricking national sneed let me tell you

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/zuma-stands-his-ground-on-shower-comment-277106

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"Firstly, I'm not certain how and why the shower thing was singled out," said Zuma, adding that he had made the contentious shower comment during cross-examination by state advocate Charin de Beer.

The e.tv reporter insisted: "So do you advise South Africans to take showers as an additional means to protect themselves (from HIV)?"

Zuma answered: "If they don't take a shower after having s*x for many days, they'll be wrong."

Confronted by suggestions that some of the evidence he had given in his r*pe case trial had raised questions about his credibility as a leader, Zuma responded: "I'm not an angel, I live in this world. I think the court is a different place.

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This batshit insane commentry from possible future president of RSA drew alarm from the press, and the very famous political cartoonist Zapiro would mock Jacob Zuma for the rest of Zuma's career by drawing him with a shower cap - literally a show cap

Among these were the various controvesies of Zuma's unfaithfulness to his wives, his adultery and even rumours that he had r*ped some of his wives (plural). This is a separate Loooonpost but basically this prompted Helen Zille, the head of the DA to remark in 2009 that Zuma's morally bankrupt disturbing behaviour could risk him spreading AIDS to his wives, and even set example for the rest of the Zulu people whom were vulnerable to the deathly disease with his eccentric and unfaithful behaviour.

This made Juluis Malema go fulllll raaaaage mode and make daily sexist remarks about Helen Zille which was way beyond what the normally conservative and reserved mainstream ANC leadership could tolerate.

https://mg.co.za/article/2009-05-12-anc-youth-league-slams-fake-racist-girl-zille/

=====(from Mail&Guardian article above)

The African National Congress (ANC) Youth League has launched its most personal attack yet on Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille in response to her remark that President Jacob Zuma has put his wives at risk of contracting HIV.

The league said it was ”disgusted by remarks attributed to the racist girl Helen Zille, who when failing to defend her stupid and sexist decision to appoint predominantly white males into her Cabinet, attacks the President of the Republic of South Africa (sic)”.

”Zille has appointed an all-male cabinet of useless people, majority of whom are her boyfriends and concubines so that she can continue to sleep around with them, yet she claims to have the moral authority to question our President (sic).”

The Sowetan on Tuesday quoted Zille as saying: ”Zuma is a self-confessed womaniser with deeply sexist views, who put all his wives at risk by having unprotected s*x with an HIV-positive woman.”

Zille is the only woman on the team. The ANCYL threatened to take ”militant action” against the premier.

”If the fake racist girl Zille continues to speak hogwash like she has been doing during elections, we will take militant action against her, and demonstrate to her that she does not have monopoly over the Western Cape (sic),” it said.

”The fake racist girl who was dropped on a head as child should understand that South Africa will never be a Mickey-mouse Republic like she wants to portray it (sic),” it added. ”An absolute majority of South Africans support President Jacob Zuma and will find it very disgusting for a fake racist apartheid agent to continue undermining the highest office in South Africa (sic).”

The ANC has also condemned Zille's statement, saying it was ”astounded by the extraordinary attack by Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille on the person of President Jacob Zuma”.

Zuma conceded during his r*pe trial in 2006 that he had had unprotected s*x with his accuser, an HIV-positive family friend, but said he had showered afterwards to minimise the risk of infection

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MALEMA SINGS SHOOT THE BOER IN 2010:

Of course the most famous drama to foreign Mayos is the 1st time Malema preached inflammatory hate speech, and swept up his supporters into having a pan-african race based ideology in South Africa as a central prominent political talking point.

In 2010 Julius Malema sang a controversial apartheid struggle song "Shoot the Boer", which drew further criticism in light of the numerous killings of white farmers and black labourers across South Africa. The South African Equality Court ruled that the song motivated genocide and was thus declared hate speech and interdict for its singing in public and private meetings, was issued. The ANCYL stated that they are willing to contest the judgement in the Constitutional Court.

Even the mainstream ANC wasn't this radical, and was embarrased by Malema's public tirades and insanity, soon after he would be suspended from the party

FUNNY HACKING DRAMA IN 2011:

On 30 March 2011, the ANC Youth League's website was hacked with a fake post under its news section, "Latest ANCYL News". The post's headline, "Julius Malema to Step Down as Youth League President" was posted as a statement by Julius Malema tendering his resignation because he had "made a fool of himself."

Some reasons were listed for his resignation: "I have brought my party the ANC into disrepute (sic); I have disrespected my elders and have made a fool out of myself; I promote my own agenda over my country and parties; I promote the singing of racist songs to promote violence and unrest in the country."

https://www.itweb.co.za/content/Pero37ZlBDRqQb6m

Whether this was a whitoid hacker, or an ANC rival who disliked Malema, it didn't matter, but it did cause some minor seeth and cope from ANCYL supporters who took the website seriously for s short moment

The primitively designed main ANCYL website would be further hacked in 2011.

On 13 June 2011, the ANC Youth League's website was hacked again, this time with a fake post under its news section, "Julius Malema defects to Cope". This is in reference to the COPE party which I had covered earlier this year.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110617031521/http://www.thedailymaverick.co.za/article/2011-06-14-hacker-attack-on-youth-leagues-website-puts-even-more-spotlight-on-malema

Then some further fun when a subsequent hack on 24 July 2011, placed a banner at the top of the home page with the statement, "HA HA HA I have a 16 Million Rand house And all of you dont!!!!", in reference to allegations in media that Julius Malema was building himself a R16 million house in the elite Johannesburg suburb of Sandton.

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/29910-ancyl-website-hacked-again.html

Lastly, his was followed the next day, 25 July 2011, by another hack superimposing the faces of Julius Malema and Jacob Zuma, on the poster for the movie Dumb & Dumber.

CREATION OF THE ECONOMI FREEDOM FIGHTERS PARTY:

https://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/2013-07-12-malema-launches-his-economic-freedom-fighters/

When Malema was finally expulsed and shitcanned from the ANC party for causing widespread embarressment to the ANC party in 2012, and deliberately rallying divisions, he we swore that he would create his own ANC with blackjack and hookers ad commies.

In 2013 Malema would declare the founding of his own party - the EFF (Economic Freedom Fighters) yes they were being very super serious with their dramatic name.

https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2013-07-28-eff-readies-for-election-registration-as-over-1-000-members-recruited/

"At a 26 July 2013 press briefing in Soweto, Malema announced that the new party had over 1000 members, double the 500 required for registration with the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC)."

FF+ BITCHES ABOUT THE NEW EFF PARTY:

The biggest belligerent to the founding of the EFF was the FF+ (the Freedom Front Plus) party which was basically the only South African equivalent of the yank Republican party, and contained most of the right wing white boomers of the country (they were however a politically and numerically insignificant party).

Their gripe was the 2011 period in which Malema had re-popularized the "shoot the boer" song and inflaming racial tension in south africa with his abbrasive remarks against boers/afrikaners.

https://mg.co.za/article/2013-09-05-malemas-eff-to-contest-2014-elections/

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The new party's registration was delayed thanks to a complaint to the IEC by the Freedom Front Plus (FF+) requesting the body decline the application of Malema on constitutional grounds.

"The EFF propagates the nationalisation of land, mines, banks and other assets without compensation, and, in particular, on a racial basis. It is unconstitutional," said FF+ chairperson Pieter Groenewald.

He said Malema had not shown remorse and would continue his "unconstitutional actions" by using the EFF as a vehicle for discriminatory actions and policies. The party was forced to postpone its official launch, planned to take place in Marikana, North West, due to the incomplete process at the IEC.

Malema said: "EFF extends its gratitude to the Independent IEC for refusing to bow down to right-wing formations and thecurrent murderous regime, which sought to prevent the registration of EFF as a political party."

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EFF DOES POORLY IN 2014 ELECTION:

And yeah that's basically the story of the formation of the EFF and it's split from the ANC. For the next 10 years Malema would be in the news cycle at least every 2 months, and his brand of nutcase would be a household name.

There was genuine fear in the 2014 election that the EFF would supplant the ANC as the dominant party, and cause a similar disasterous ruling as Mugabe had done in Zimbabwe with his extreme far left views and policy advocation.

Yet when 2014 arrived the supposed revolution tide garnered a mere pathetic 6% of the general vote after all of that fricking hype and self indulgence

It came out that most ANC boomers preferred the slow and steady and stable change of the ANC mainstream party, similar as to how USA black boomers preferred Biden's "safe and steady" moderate policies over radical leftwing bernie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_South_African_general_election

SOME EFF STATS:

Some final statistics before I end your suffering for reading my woooords

"According to a November 2013 Ipsos survey, the party's supporters are younger than average, with 49% being younger than 24, overwhelmingly black (99%) and mostly male, with women representing only 33% of the support base. A disproportionate number of supporters live in Malema's home province of Limpopo (28%), while only 1% live in KwaZulu-Natal, a more populous province.[71] A 2018 survey conducted by social research company Citizen Surveys found that around 70% of EFF supporters were between the ages of 18 and 34, overwhelmingly black (97%), mostly based in major metropolitan cities (48%), predominantly male (62%) with 43% of their support base located in Gauteng Province."

Point is most of Malema's core supporters are young disenfranchised unemployed black men, and thankfully for mayos not the majority.