Leader of the EFF, Julius Malema, has accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of keeping billions of rand in undeclared money in his other properties other than Phala Phala farm. Malema was speaking during an address at the 4th Students Assembly held in Birchwood, Boksburg, on Saturday attended by members of the party’s student command.
“There are millions more that is being kept under mattresses in other residences. There is still Soweto. There is still Venda. There is still Cape Town and there is still Mpumalanga where monies are stored under mattresses. We asked the question in Parliament how much is left in these properties because we are talking about one property. All these properties have got money stored,” Malema said.
He said the ANC was a party of dishonest people who continue to shield Ramaphosa even after he has failed to ensure ANC workers get their salaries. Malema added that Ramaphosa could have used some of these billions to help his organisation pay employee salaries which the party had struggled to pay for the better part of 2021.
“To show that the ANC is constituted by sick people they still call such a person their president while they were starving for six months last year as the workers have been working with no salary. Cyril’s conscience does not even say let me take a bit here for the ANC and find a way of giving them a salary …we are talking about billions. He does not have sympathy for those workers who work for his party while he is sleeping on top of billions,” he said.
Following calls for Ramaphosa to step down amid a growing number of protests, Malema said the EFF was in consultation with other opposition parties to bring the country to a standstill with a possible shutdown against Ramaphosa’s failing administration.
“We are in consultation with everyone and we have reached a point where we no longer care. This man must go. We will remove him whether he likes it or not. So when we call for the mother of all shutdowns, every campus must come to a standstill. Not only students, including workers themselves. We are not going to teach. We are not going to clean. We are not going to manage. We are going to defend South Africa against gangsters because South Africa has been captured by gangsters,” Malema told the students.
