Malema predicts ANC won’t be ruling SA come 2019

Malema’s statement followed predictions by observers and analysts that neither the African National Congress (ANC) nor the Democratic Alliance (DA) will get a majority vote in the Tshwane or Johannesburg metros in the 2016 local elections.

It is contesting in the local government elections for the first time.

“The EFF will continue to participate in Parliament representing our people”.

The Johannesburg metro vote tally was still outstanding on Saturday, with 91 percent of votes tallied by lunchtime.

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The EFF’s 8 percent vote share countrywide, with almost all ballots counted, would represent a gain of just 2 percentage points from national elections two years ago. That’s the government of the day, that’s who the people are rejecting.

He added he was proud of the EFF for being the party that has humbled the ANC.

Malema joined the ruling party when he was nine, rising to head the party’s Youth League, and once proclaimed his readiness to kill for Zuma.

Party president, Julius Malema, says they did not meet the targets they had set for themselves.

According to Malema, possible coalitions with any party were not out of the question at this stage as “the will of the people would prevail”.

Curiously such a deal might have long-term benefits for both the EFF and DA by forcing them to find common ground closer to the political center and showing their respective core constituencies, black and white voters, that they are not the devils they are depicted to be. The party had managed to increase its support base in the elections in spite of having considerably fewer resources than two of the biggest and leading political parties in the country.

“The EFF will have to tone down the anti-white rhetoric and the DA will have to learn how to talk to a young unemployed man living in a township”, he said.

Representatives from South Africa’s top three political parties spoke to CNBC Africa’s Karabo Letlhatlha at the IEC Central Operations Centre and delved into each party’s campaign strategy and how the results will affect operations in the country at a municipal level – here are some of the highlights.