Malema: ANC election strategy will blame failures on illegal immigration
EFF leader Julius Malema has accused the ANC of using illegal immigration as a scapegoat for the party’s failure to deliver services.
He says the governing party would rather blame African people than admit its failures.
Malema addressed delegates at the EFF’s elections workshop in Ekurhuleni on Thursday.
His remarks come amid the resurfacing of the debate on illegal immigration following the deadly fire at a building in the Johannesburg CBD and the issues around illegal mining in Gauteng.
In 2022, then Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula, claimed that illegal foreigners are a contributing factor to the high unemployment rate in the country, while Limpopo Health MEC Phophi Ramathuba launched a diatribe against a Zimbabwean patient in a Bela Bela hospital.
"The same ruling party that has African in its name has adopted an election strategy that it will attribute its failures to African people. It does so to take advantage of our people and distract them from the fact that it has failed," said Malema.
Malema also reiterated his claim that various institutions have been destroyed in defence of President Cyril Ramaphosa.
"The Office of Public Protector has been destroyed in defence of a money launder. The office of the Reserve Bank is being destroyed in defence of a woman abuser called Cyril Ramaphosa. The office of the Revenue Service has been destroyed in defence of Cyril Ramaphosa," he said.
At the same time, Malema also said he fears the ANC will do the same to the Independent Electoral Commission.
"I can tell you this without any hesitation, they are now attempting to destroy the IEC, so that the IEC can defend Ramaphosa's defeat in the polls in 2024. They must find us ready for them. We must never allow anyone who is a member of Sadtu or any member of the union that is aligned with Cosatu to be part of the IEC. Cosatu has declared on a daily basis that it will support the ANC.”
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