Malema says EFF could join GNU if DA and FF Plus withdrew

Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has said the party would be willing to join the Government of National Unity (GNU) if the Democratic Alliance (DA) and Freedom Front Plus (FF+) withdrew, but would not compromise its political principles to enter government.

We are not opposed to participating in GNU. If Helen (Zille) walks tomorrow, and that other one of Correctional Services, the Freedom Front, (Pieter) Groenewald, walk, we’ll go inside.

Malema said during a door-to-door election campaign in Naledi, Soweto.

We don’t play with power. We get it, we use it to benefit the people.

Malema said the EFF would not support a GNU that included parties he associated with the killing of liberation struggle figures Chris Hani and Solomon Mahlangu.

We don’t want a GNU that has got murders in it.

He said, asking how the EFF could share government with parties he accused of hostility towards the EFF, claiming the party’s independence from white political influence was behind the DA’s refusal to work with it.