Johannesburg – EFF leader Julius Malema has weighed in on the ANC
succession debate ahead of the ruling party's 54th national elective
conference in December.
Malema was speaking to journalists at the
EFF headquarters in Johannesburg following the freedom fighters' plenary
meeting at the weekend.
He gave his personal view on the
candidates expected to battle it out for leadership when President Jacob
Zuma steps down as president of the party in December.
"Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma will be president if Zuma wants her to be," said Malema.
But
the EFF commander-in-chief said if she does emerge victorious it would
have little to do with affirming her abilities to lead the party as its
first female president.
"That thing of South Africa being ready
for a female president is just rhetoric. He's trying to sound smart, to
appear like he supports women," Malema said. 'Nkosazana is corrupt'.
He claimed Dlamini-Zuma's task, if she does take over from Zuma, would be to protect him from facing corruption charges.
Malema also poked holes in the outgoing African Union Commission chairperson's credibility.
"Nkosazana
is corrupt, how do you accept an award from the Guptas if you are not
corrupt? How do you legitimise such an illegal institution that is
stealing money from our government?" asked Malema.
In 2015, Gupta-owned broadcaster ANN7 named her "South African of the Year".
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