Rumours of EFF split

JOHANNESBURG – The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) denied media reports that the party was in trouble with a split on the cards.

“The Economic Freedom Fighters dismisses claims reported in several media outlets that the emergence of general unions means EFF has split,” spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi said in a statement. “These are malicious reports raising false alarms and distorting the truth.”

Ndlozi said the people who formed a trade union in its name had misled the public since there was no resolution of the EFF to form a trade union.

“The EFF is an organisation with processes and procedures that allow it to function and take decisions. It cannot be held at ransom by impatient people who even go to the extent of misleading the public by feeding it wrong information in its name,” he said.

The Times reported that interim general secretary of the National Trade Union Congress Eddie Mothiba was suspended. The paper reported that EFF members formed the union last month but leader Julius Malema had distanced the party from it.

The EFF’s Tshwane region convener, and Gauteng MPL Benjamin Disolwane, told Mothiba that he was suspended from membership and barred from EFF activities at a meeting in Pretoria on Saturday, according to The Times article. – Nampa-Sapa