By Johnathan Paoli
Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema has claimed that the party has been infiltrated by double agents, with former founding members being turned and captured ahead of the national elective conference in December.
“The EFF was not only confronted by infiltration for the purposes of sabotage in elections, or for the purposes of destroying the organisation as we know it. We were also confronted by ideological infiltration and political degeneration,” he said.
Malema was addressing the EEF’s Gauteng Provincial General Assembly in Benoni. He spoke candidly about the challenges facing the party, and reiterated its mission to fight corruption and unify South Africa’s black population.
Malema positioned the EFF as the only political entity capable of uniting black South Africans, dismissing other political structures and figures, chief among them the former president Jacob Zuma’s Umkhonto weSize Party.
“There is no old person who is going to unite
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