ANC describes the Economic Freedom Fighters as fascists

01 Feb 2016 | Admin Author

ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe has drawn comparisons between the Nazis and Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters.

Mantashe said in a statement today following the ANC's national executive committee meeting, that a fascist a movement has entered South Africa's parliamentary politics

Without naming the EFF, Mantashe said this movement uses uniform to mobilise in the same way that Hitler used brown shirts in 1930s.

Mantashe said the worrying factor in this regard is its use of anarchy and destruction as their modus operandi, adding that it fits into the paramilitary content of their strategy, which shows early signs of a rebel movement; designed and calculated to undermine democracy and state institutions.

Malema's EFF has started wearging red overalls to parliament and provincial legislatures in defiance of House rules, resulting in EFF members being ejected from the Eastern Cape and Gauteng legislatures.