WATCH: Mabuza says ANC is weaker without Malema
The premier says he will be approaching the EFF leader in an attempt to get him back to the ruling party.
Mpumalanga premier David Mabuza. Picture: Gallo Images / City Press / Herman Verwey
Mpumalanga African National Congres (ANC) Premier David Mabuza has joined a list of people who have come out saying the ANC would be better if EFF leader Julius Malema were still in the party.
Speaking at the ANCYL provincial general council in Mbombela on Sunday, Mabuza said he would be going after EFF leader Julius Malema to try to bring him back to the ruling party.
The premier said everyone who was still in the ANC had torn it apart, and it things got worse when people left it, saying it could only get better if everyone returned.
“I still think that if we had him within the rank, the ANC could be better. We can live together, we’re not a homogenous group. We’ve got different personalities, but we’re stronger when all of them are within the ANC.
“We’re weaker when people leave the ANC. He must expect me, I’m coming … I’m coming, and I’m not afraid of him, he knows. It’s about the country, it’s about our country, our beloved country. I think we’ve torn it apart, all of us, so probably … it’s high time that we must change the way we do things,” he said.
Watch the videos below posted on Twitter by Mweli Masilela:
Watch Mpumalanga ANC chair DD Mabuza say @MYANC would be better if @Julius_S_Malema was still in the ranks of the ruling party. #sabcnews pic.twitter.com/MWzCRdgtKo
— Mweli Masilela (@mwelimasilela) March 12, 2017
#DDMabuza: says he is thinking of bringing @Julius_S_Malema back to the ANC, and Ronald Lamola must assist in that project. #sabcnews pic.twitter.com/vJ07pyoFaP
— Mweli Masilela (@mwelimasilela) March 12, 2017
Last year, the ANC branch in Limpopo made calls for Luthuli House to set aside Malema’s expulsion.
Chairperson Boy Mamabolo confirmed to The Citizen that his branch had, at a meeting, resolved Malema should be reinstated to the ANC because he was a “good leader”. He said the branch would write a letter to ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe after “engaging” Malema.
“It was a big mistake. That guy is a good mobiliser and a leader by birth,” he said.
Even the ANCYL called for the EFF leader to be brought back into the ruling party following the party’s dismal performance in the local government elections in August last year.
The league’s Gauteng chairperson, Matome Chiloane, told The Citizen that the ANC needed the firebrand leader to “come home”. Malema has not made any public response to calls by ANC in Mpumalanga to get him back to the ruling party.
The EFF leader was expelled in 2012 for allegedly sowing division and bringing the party into disrepute.
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https://www.citizen.co.za/news/news-national/malema-i-will-not-return-to-the-anc/
