Malema explains why EFF did not disrupt #SONA2019

Staff Reporter

Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema says his party decided not to disrupt President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address on Thursday because he complied with the red beret’s call to publicly explain himself on the R500,000 his presidential campaign received as a donation from controversial facilities company Bosasa.

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The EFF had initially threatened to turn Ramaphosa’s address into a question-and-answer session if the president did not come clean on Bosasa.

“After the press conference of the EFF, the president had an interview with eNCA, answered the questions and went to the Public Protector [Busisiwe Mkhwebane] including releasing the statement he released to the public protector. This is the president who is saying to all of us, I am available to account. That’s what we’ve been saying, the president must