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 walks tomorrow, and that other one of Correctional Service, the Freedom Front, walk, we’ll go inside.

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. How can we share government with people who killed our people? You killed them. And those are the people we must sit with. We are not going to allow that.

Malema also rejected claims that the EFF was unsuitable for coalition government because of its political conduct, pointing to the ANC’s own governance challenges. He further accused the DA of hostility towards the EFF, claiming the party’s independence from white political influence was behind the DA’s refusal to work with it. Malema stated that the EFF was focused on winning the upcoming November 4 local government elections rather than speculating about possible coalition arrangements in metropolitan municipalities.