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EFF withdraws support for DA/ANC at hung councils


The EFF has withdrawn its 2016 decision to vote with the Democratic Alliance at municipalities where the party needs the EFF's vote.

Malema was briefing the media in Braamfontein this afternoon.

He said the  EFF will not support the ANC either.

After the May 8 general elections this year, Malema announced that his party was eyeing the mayorship in Tshwane and also wanted to play a role in the mayoral committee in the City of Johannesburg. The EFF planned to take Tshwane because it was in the red, with allegedly corrupt business people from former mayor Sputla Kgosientsho's era still doing business with the metro.

The DA confirmed it was approached by the EFF and had informed the red berets that they have signed agreements to work together with the Congress of the People (Cope), the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) and the Freedom Front Plus (FF Plus), and won't give in to the EFF's demands to take over hung councils.

The relationship has come to an end as the DA now refuses to cooperate with the EFF, Malema said.

"The DA refuses  to vote with us. We voted for them but now they won't vote with us for Tshwane. We can't keep voting for the DA when they cannot vote for us...It is done, it's finished."

The DA says it noted Malema's comments of Tuesday afternoon and that its unfortunate that the EFF has taken this stance at the expense of the millions of South Africans who voted for change in the 2016 municipal elections.

-ANA