EFF lashes out at Public Protector
EFF President Julius Malema says the party will deal with Absa in its own time.
Addressing the media in Braamfontein, Malema responded to the campaign for the bank to pay back the money, following the Public Protector's report on an apartheid-era bailout.
Malema made it clear the party will not be told by people who are on the 'Gupta-payroll' when to occupy Absa.
He believes State Security Minister David Mahlobo and the Gupta family are behind the current campaign against the bank.
The EFF leader says the party will hold Absa accountable on its own terms.
"We will hold Absa accountable through our own terms and at our own time. We are not going to be told by agents and spies. The people who are calling for Absa to be occupied and for Absa to pay back the money are on the Guptas payroll and the money they got from their parties are State Security money Mahlobo told people to go find dirt on the Ruperts. Mahlobo has been going around shopping for wrong things against the Ruperts in exchange for money."
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The Public Protector's report into the money given to Absa by the apartheid government was leaked earlier this month.
The Office of the Public Protector has since laid charges over the leak.
Meanwhile, Malema says the party made a terrible mistake by supporting the appointment of Busisiwe Mkhwebane as Public Protector.
Malema says Mkhwebane is only interested in protecting the interests of the state and the Gupta family.
The EFF leader says the Office of the Public Protector is in danger of collapsing under Mkhwebane's leadership.
He accused Mkhwebane of being a spy, and working to protect the Gupta family and the ANC government.
Malema says she is not doing anything to protect the public.
"We have made a terrible mistake. We are looking at some way to rescue that office. We just took a Gupta puppet from the Gupta's kitchen and planted her there. I said we must give her a chance, but she is proving without fail that she was sent there to destroy that office. From today we must stop calling her Public Protector. We must call her State Protector," says Malema.