Malema says ‘He banna!’ to pics of Lekota’s tiny ‘national congress’
Picture: Twitter/Mosiuoa Lekota
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EFF president Julius Malema, his deputy Floyd Shivambu and many others on Twitter were taken aback at photographs posted by Congress of the People president Mosiuoa Lekota of the party’s supposed “national congress” – which looked more like a small team-building session for a minor start-up company in Midrand.
If there were 40 people in the thatched conference room, that would be a generous estimate. Some on Twitter said they could only count 14 people.
By contrast, the national conferences of the ANC and DA attract thousands of delegates, while the EFF’s first conference in Bloemfontein a few years ago was also well attended.
Shivambu and Malema reacted with disbelief that the gathering could be so humble and that Lekota could so proudly share photos of it.
Lekota realised why he was getting these reactions and tried to qualify the photos by explaining that it was in fact just a meeting of his Congress National Committee, not a full-blown national congress.
However, the mockery would not stop.
The party was earlier this month also laughed at when Lekota posted photos of himself handing over three soccer balls to the Computer Stars Football Club in Mandela Park, Ladybrand, in the Free State.
Some found it extraordinary that the party could make such a big fuss about such a small donation, with many critics pointing out that the balls did not even look high quality, while some suggested they’d actually been purchased at a bargain price from Shoprite.
Malema mocked his fellow parliamentarian that time too, saying Lekota was responding to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Thuma Mina call.
Cope has seen a dramatic drop in support from the dizzy heights of its founding. The party only scraped its way to three National Assembly seats in the last election, a huge drop from their debut of 7.4% of the vote, which gave them 30 seats.
Some sarcastically said on Saturday night Twitter shouldn’t mock the small party.
