EFF Student Command Sees Red After Leader Malema Questions Their Competency

Riyaz Patel

The EFF student command (SC) has hit back at party leader Julius Malema, who suggested they were useless during a press conference Thursday.

In a strongly worded statement, the student body said there appears to be moves to dissolve the body at the party’s national people’s assembly (NPA) next month.

Party leader Malema fell just short of saying the EFF SC may be done away with during the conference scheduled for December 13-16 at the Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg.

#EFFPresser Malema: We are at a formative stage. We were coerced to form the Student Command, prematurely. Now, they are unable to do anything without the assistance of the mother body.
— Economic Freedom Fighters (@EFFSouthAfrica) November 21, 2019

Malema added: “They have less than 15% of branches across campuses and they are waiting for the mother body to launch branches. If they cannot launch branches, then