“Parody” Malema: “Stop bullshitting Atul.” Here’s the real EFF statement.

When pressure started mounting on the business practices of the Gupta family, they turned to that well known defender of unpopular causes, London Public Relations company Bell Pottinger. The Guptas should ask for their money back. There is absolutely no way to spin yourself out of the mess they have created. Too many people know the truth. Including the man who invented the term “Zupta” to reflect the power this family holds over South Africa’s President. At first we thought the feisty founder of the Economic Freedom Fighters, Julius Malema, had re-entered the fray via social media after Atul Gupta tweeted: “Jonas is political point scoring. No meeting with Guptas took place.” That’s obviously the line Bell Pottinger told him to follow (“we’re innocent businessmen, it’s all politics”). Except that it carries as much credence as the pathetic attempt by one of his paid lackeys to attack myself and compatriot Peter Bruce in a Gupta Media editorial. So the EFF leader’s supposed “tweet” to Gupta: “Don’t bullshit everyone, You even offered me a position in Parliament” seemed believable and it initially caught me out. In a flash, though, the twitterati explained this was from a “parody” account and not a statement from the Commander in Chief himself. But republished below is the EFF’s actual statement on the issue. Whatever you might think of their policies, this is one time to give credit where it is due. Without Malema’s intervention, it’s most unlikely any of what is happening now would have. Viva competitive politics, viva. – Alec Hogg 

From the Economic Freedom Fighters:

On 10 March 2016, the EFF reported to the people of South Africa that the Gupta family is directly responsible for the firing of Nhlanhla Nene as Minister of Finance. The EFF further confirmed that the Guptas offered the Deputy Minister of Finance, Mcebisi Jonas, the cabinet post of Finance Minister to replace to replace Nhlanhla Nene. Today, Mcebisi Jonas confirmed what the EFF had already reported that the Gupta family had offered him a job of Finance Minister, which vindicates the EFF from attempts by the Guptas to portray us as rumour-mongering.

Julius Malema, leader of the leftist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party speaks during an interview with Reuters in Johannesburg, January 27, 2016. Malema, who seeks nationalisation of mines and land and the curbing of white economic power, called on other opposition parties to unite with his Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) to break the grip of the ruling party at municipal polls this year. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko
Julius Malema, leader of the leftist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party speaks during an interview with Reuters in Johannesburg, January 27, 2016.

These developments demonstrate one fact that South Africa is directly under leadership of unelected civilian foreign-national family, which is controlling and influencing the decisions and lives of politicians, in particular that of Jacob Zuma. The likes of Nhlanhla Nene and Mcebisi Jonas are not the only ones. The EFF also reported in September 2015 that the appointment of Mosebenzi Zwane as Minister of Minerals Resources was not an ANC collective decision but the decision of the Gupta family to have Ngoako Ramatlhodi replaced with their puppet with the sole intention to loot state resources. The subsequent acquisition of Optimum Coal by the Guptas with the assistance of Zwane support this fact.

Further revelations by the former ANC MP and former Chairperson of the ANC Parliamentary Caucus, Vytjie Mentor, that she was also offered a job of Minister of Public Enterprise by the Guptas, with Zuma within an earshot, confirm that the government has been subordinated to the narrow and criminal interests of this Gupta family. This is a family that continues to loot parastatals of millions of taxpayers funds through its racketeering schemes called The New Age and ANN7.

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The Guptas have effectively undermined and rendered the votes of the people of South Africa and the democratic system useless. It also demonstrates that the ANC and Jacob Zuma have voluntarily handed over the political decision making of the country to a single family, the Guptas, which in itself is direct threat to the sovereignty and national security of the country. There is no further evidence needed as to why Zuma must not step down as the President of the Republic, unless we are being forced to accept to be controlled and run by an unelected civilian family.

These disturbing developments further strengthen the conviction of the EFF that an engagement of Zuma during the Question and Answer session in Parliament is a futile exercise because he no longer runs the country as he has delegated his constitutional powers as President of the Republic and full control to the Guptas.

The EFF will continue to demand that the Guptas leave the country, but not before they face the full might of the law.

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