EFF writes a letter to the ANC
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Following several public spats between the ANC and DA over the GNU agreement, the EFF has now expressed the desire to join hands with the governing party, ANC to form government.
The party presented a proposal which had conditions should the ANC wish to work with them.
The red berets returned a favour by also attacking and expressing their unwillingness to coexist with the DA and FF Plus who also made it clear on several occasions that they don’t want anything to do with the EFF.
EFF’s Secretary General (SG) Marshall Dlamini said the worst thing the ANC could ever do is go in bed with the two above mentioned parties who have no regard for the life of black people.
He said that the two parties represented the imperialist, counter-revolutionary, white supremacist agenda.
The party wrote a statement to the ANC’s SG Fikile Mbalula where among many other things they said that while they want to form coalition with them, first thing they acknowledge is that the ANC is the leader in this government having amassed major votes.
As a result, they will be under their leadership.
“The EFF acknowledges the ANC as a progressive movement that has played a gallant role in the advancement of the liberation of the oppressed from apartheid and colonialism, with the emphasis of liberating black people in general and Africans in particular.”
In their objection with working the FF Plus and DA, they said the two only seeks nothing but to neutralize the possibility of economic transformation which both EFF and ANC represent.
They proposed that that a new agreement or Statement of intent between EFF and ANC be written instead of the ANC’s Statement of intent agreed to by Government of National Unity (GNU).
“This means, we enter into an agreement with the ANC as leader of government, and not with other parties it may invite to government.”
“The agreement, or statement of intent must also necessarily include the principles of redress and equality as captured in Section 9.2 of the Constitution which states that ‘to promote the achievement of equality, legislative and other measures designed to protect or advance persons, or categories of persons, disadvantaged by unfair discrimination may be taken,” said Dlamini.
