BLF scoffs at ‘Zille’s noisy poodle’ Malema after DA uses him as ‘garden boy’

Black First Land First (BLF), whose founder Andile Mngxitama was expelled from the EFF in 2015, is now crowing over the EFF’s unhappiness with the DA in Nelson Mandela Bay.

Mngxitama was horrified last year that the EFF supported the DA to govern in metros where no majority was reached – the EFF’s support is now critical for stable government in Pretoria and Johannesburg.

The EFF and ANC did not support the Patriotic Alliance’s motion of no confidence on Thursday against the now ousted UDM deputy mayor in Nelson Mandela Bay, Mongameli Bobani.

The UDM and EFF have said they will now be reconsidering their support for the DA in the three metros where the DA governs with coalition support.

The PA’s sole councillor, Marlon Daniels, had brought the motion, which was supported by the DA, whose mayor, Athol Trollip, had been at loggerheads with Bobani for months. Daniels now wants to be given the vacant post.

The BLF believes the EFF was handed a bloody nose this week and has been proven wrong for its decision to support the DA instead of the ANC.

BLF spokesperson Lindsay Maasdorp, in a statement, said: “The Democratic Alliance (DA) was never the better the devil – it is the ultimate devil. The DA in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality (NMB) has just shown up the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and the United Democratic Movement (UDM) as its garden boys and voting cattle to keep it in power.

“The BLF had consistently warned about giving political power to whites. Now the DA has shown just who is the boss. It is also clear the EFF and UDM can do fokol [sic] about that – their job is to keep Helen Zille in power!

“The BLF notes that the DA after ill-treating the NMB Deputy Major and UDM deployee Mongameli Bobani has swiftly removed him without any consultation with its coalition partners. The DA has entered into a new deal with Gayton McKenzie’s Patriotic Alliance to render the UDM obsolete in the NMB. Yesterday via this deal the PA voted with the DA in favour of a motion of no confidence in the UDM Deputy Mayor.”

They said McKenzie was now “clearly giving the EFF a dose of its own bitter medicine by employing the EFF’s politics of ‘the better devil'”.

“The DA, on the other hand, is exposed as being arrogant and not taking Julius Malema seriously.

They said that despite Malema’s numerous threats “to break the EFF’s coalition with the DA” he had now been “exposed as a noisy poodle of Helen Zille”.

“The EFF can’t break the coalition with the DA for the simple reason that it was never its decision to enter into the coalition but the decision of its handler from London, Lord Robin Renwick. Only Renwick can break the coalition, not Malema.

“Not long ago Malema said that if the DA does not remove Helen Zille as premier of the Western Cape, then the EFF would break the coalition. The DA ignored Malema – Zille is still Premier of the Western Cape. All it took for Malema to back off from ending the coalition is one telephone call from London,” Maasdorp alleged, without substantiation.

“Only the BLF is fighting Helen Zille and her racism because it is not captured by London like the EFF. Bantu Holomisa is a dizzy former homeland leader who follows the whims of white monopoly capital. The DA has shown him flames.

“It’s sad to see how the EFF has been reduced to a complaining junior partner of the DA. The long statement issued yesterday by the EFF – which has been aptly reported as its ‘pathetic lament’ to its ‘bosses, the DA’ – shows that the DA never took the EFF seriously (not even in parliament) from day one. But Malema’s hands are tied by London. The EFF will remain in an abusive relationship with the DA until London decides otherwise.

“It is absolutely clear that to vote for the EFF is to vote for the DA indirectly. In the next few days the PA may take the seat of the deputy mayor in NMB – Gayton McKenzie has check-mated his old rival [the EFF]. The BLF also warns the PA: ‘Beware of whites. They are not your friends, ask Malema.’

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