The decision to ditch a top position in the EFF’s central command team (CCT) to contest in the third Provincial People's Assembly proved to be a calculated risk that paid off for newly elected EFF Eastern Cape chair Zilindile Vena.
Unimpressed EFF leader Julius Malema has lambasted the more than 1,000 party delegates who voted for an all-male provincial top five at the weekend. Malema addressed the delegates on Sunday at East London’s Jan Smuts Stadium, where the party held its third provincial people’s assembly. “There’s no solution in SA without women at the centre of that development,” he said.
Axed EFF PR councillor in the Makana municipality, Anelisa Bentele, has ripped into the “toxic” party, claiming that it exploited and treated her like a slave before dumping her. Bentele was removed by the party after she failed to get 100 votes in her ward. In 2016, EFF leader Julius Malema announced that EFF PR councillors who failed to meet the requirement would be replaced with ward councillors.