SAElections2019 ANALYSIS: Don't overestimate the EFF | EbrahimFakir Psychodelia2
EFF leader Julius Malema arrives at Orlando stadium in Soweto for the party's election rally. Photo: AFP
The EFF will need to double their numbers in Gauteng and Limpopo to compensate for their low growth prospects in all of the other provinces, excluding the Free State and North West. With no discernible political strategy, besides a hodge-podge ensemble of ideology, the Economic Freedom Fighters flip-flop from issue to issue and often proffer inchoate and rhetorical demands rather than policies.
The EFF's approach to partnerships at municipal level betrays its political promiscuity and the naked desire for the spoils of power and influence. If anyone is captured and used, like a gun for hire, it is the EFF, used and abused by both the ANC and the DA. In both cases, this is likely to backfire. Though both ANC factions see bringing the EFF in to the ANC as bolstering the sure major majority of the ANC into the future, it is likely to prove otherwise. It will ensure a foothold and longevity for a form of corrupt populist patronage pork barrel politics, and will certainly serve to undermine any clean up in government.
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