Julius Malema, who left the political scene swearing blind that he would never ever be anything but an ANC member, is now launching his new party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). He is apparently off to a great start already, which is not surprising in a country with 30% unemployment and no doubt, for those of us who were irritated about hearing everything he had to say, we are now going to hear from him for another year, in between his corruption charges, etc.

For some of those who think the labour laws are just wonderful and not any problem for overseas companies, despite all the evidence to the contrary, they will no doubt also be impressed with the EFF policies. Malema plans to nationalise the mines, banks and other parts of economy, land will be taken away without compensation and there will be free quality education, healthcare and housing, etc. He says, like Zimbabwe, we will not allow foreign ownership of land in South Africa anymore, which will be something of a problem for those people who have invested in wine farms, game farms and apartments all along Clifton, but on the plus side he says there is plenty of space in South Africa and as a result nobody will have to be driven into the sea. He went on to say that he will share, black and white “but failure to share means you will be forced to share”. I assume that he is not totally convinced that his criminal cases are going well, because I cannot see any other reason for the following quote: “Not even prison will take away that political will. We will fight economic freedom from the cells, if need be because we are committed to this cause.” He did say that anybody found guilty of corruption will not be able to be a member of the EFF because the organisation is founded on the principle of being anti-corruption.