“Immigrant” is NOT synonymous to “Black Foreigners”. How can you tell Asians apart to know if the server is Thai vs Indonesian vs Malay vs Filipino ???
You’ve been there for 3 days but here you are with your dizzy take. Ithi you hate Black Immigrants with your chest.
SIES
♦️In Pictures♦️
Fighters have gathered in their thousands at the #EFFJune16Rally at the Union Buildings in Tshwane, picking up the baton from the fearless youth of 16 June 1976 and carrying forward the struggle for economic freedom.
The Union Buildings will never be the same. This is historic!
Hake batle ho bua maka neh… I've seen deeper thought on a Chappies wrapper than from you.
“No tribalism because we move freely”
What’s next? no sexism because women can drive. 🙈🤣
#1. First, let’s begin by acknowledging what’s true and fair in the critique by @SizweLo. There is value in honest, robust reflection. The @EFFSouthAfrica founding manifesto is clear: this is not a five-year project. It is a generational mission to dismantle colonial economic structures, to return the land, and to transfer wealth to the majority. That means we must welcome serious engagement, even when it’s uncomfortable.
Indeed, after the 2024 elections, the EFF itself undertook an internal reflection. The organization noted tactical errors, weaknesses in organisation, and the growing complexity of the electoral battlefield, where the left is under attack—ideologically, financially and in the narrative space. So, yes: the organisation accepts the challenge to evolve.
But evolution is not abandonment. There’s a difference between refining tactics and surrendering strategy. And that distinction matters.
Now, about the critique itself—thought-provoking, yes. But also loaded with assumptions and subtle mischaracterisations that need to be unpacked.
Take the claim that the struggle for land “no longer inspires.” Says who? On what basis? No credible study, no data, no ethnographic fieldwork is cited. Just anecdotal sentiment dressed up as fact. Elections in an era of mass abstention and declining legitimacy cannot alone measure belief in revolution. That’s not science—that’s vibes.
And even vibes shift. You only need to raise the issue of land redistribution in a room of young South Africans denied housing, jobs, or dignity to see how alive the wound still is. Just because the pain no longer shouts doesn’t mean it has healed.
The same applies to the supposed “decline” of the Seven Cardinal Pillars. Have they become abstract? Or has the country been so brutalised by hunger, rolling blackouts, and elite theft that it’s forgotten to imagine anything beyond the next meal?
But that’s precisely why we must hold the line. Political conditions may shift, but revolutionary clarity must endure. We chant “land expropriation without compensation for equal redistribution in use” not “land or death” (that is someone else and I will not say who) not because we expect overnight applause, but because without land, without ownership of the economy, we are stuck in a post-apartheid illusion.
Still, the critique raises important questions: Are we doing enough to make the ideology connect with everyday struggle? Are we meeting people where they are? And here, the answer must be honest: not always. But it is wrong to suggest the EFF is doing nothing. In this 7th @ParliamentofRSA alone:
1. We introduced a bill to scrap student debt—an issue suffocating thousands of youth who can’t graduate, work, or progress.
2. We notified NEDLAC that the Insourcing Bill is complete and will be tabled—pushing to end labour outsourcing once and for all.
3. We challenged the illegal adoption of the 2025 Budget and the VAT increase—going as far as court. A big victory for the poor and the working class, no opinion piece about this.
4. Our young MPs are not playing to the gallery but working in committees on issues like data costs, NSFAS corruption, and municipal failure.
This is not abstract theory—it is revolutionary praxis in motion, grounded in the lived struggles of our people.
And it is happening not only in Parliament. Across municipalities, fighters are delivering. MMC @RamaboduObakeng is showing real leadership in waste and service delivery in Tshwane. In Johannesburg, Dr @MTshwaku was voted best MMC. These are not slogans—they are material improvements, led by revolutionaries.
In Mpumalanga, the EFF has just blown the lid off a multi-million rand laptop procurement scandal, exposing inflated prices and irregular tender processes that rob the poor to enrich the connected.
1. Meshoe has been leading ACDP for 31yrs
2. Holomisa has been leading UDM for 27yrs
3. Godi has been leading APC for 17yrs
Media is fighting proxy wars for white establishment calling for Malema to step down to allow EFF to grow. Since when is white owned media concerned about growth of EFF? Don't fall for the trap fighters!!
Shem she doesn't need to accept the label of a Prozzie if she doesn't want it for herself.
Tho she is not gonna make the rest of us comply with her delusion because what she is doing has already been defined and the rest of us will call it what it is.