EFF Student Command (EFFSC) President Sihle Lonzi has cracked the whip on those who wanted the party to close shop and join MK Party, saying this will be a sellout move to the widows of Marikana and #Feesmustfall students who believed in the EFF.
Delivering his speech at the ongoing third national people’s assembly at the Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg, Lonzi thanked leader Julius Malema for not agreeing to the proposal of dissolving the EFF for MKP.
Lonzi said the EFF was not formed in a boardroom and should not be closed in one.
The EFF was formed at Uncle Toms in Soweto in 2013 and Lonzi said discussing the issue of closing the organisation behind boardroom doors was not ideal.
“This organisation can’t be closed in a boardroom, it was never formed in a boardroom. What will we say to the Marikana widows who came to you and said we want an alternative to the ANC, the ANC has killed our husbands…
“What will we say to the #feesmustfall generation when the police were shooting them at higher institutions of higher learning, it was the EFF that stood with them. What will we say to them,” he said.
Lonzi added that this would also be a disappointment to the workers that the EFF insourced in workplaces.
His remarks come after former EFF member Dali Mpofu allegedly proposed to Malema to shut down and join hands with MKP.
Malema said he would not agree to the idea of closing the EFF.
"I told him it was not going to happen. I don't agree with that and there is no EFF that is going to close shop," Malema said in a recent podcast interview.
The ongoing EFF’s National People's Assemble will witness the election of the new leadership.
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