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Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema says he is hopeful that a coalition deal with ActionSA is still possible.
Malema was speaking at AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo’s welcoming ceremony, at Enkululekweni Palace in the Eastern Cape.
Malema made the remark after ActionSA released a statement announcing that it has rejected the EFF’s proposal for a coalition government in the Gauteng Metros.
ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba said the main reason for the rejection is that they don’t want to be dependent on support from the ANC.
Mashaba shares more on rejecting the EFF’s proposal:
The EFF proposed that it should run Tshwane, the ANC Ekurhuleni while ActionSA governs Johannesburg.
Malema explains, ” We don’t co-govern, we all govern alone, we are an executive here and Mashaba is an executive there, everywhere where we are you are an executive. One of us is your opposition in the legislature, meaning the speaker and all of that belongs to opposition to monitor you and hold you accountable, such a proposal, Mashaba says no it’s not going to happen. Let’s hope that the leadership, in its wisdom, because the land is here, it can be able to persuade him to do the right thing.”
Malema gifted the AbaThembu King a Mercedes GLE earlier today.
During the ceremony, he spoke about the coalition issue:
