South Africa's Julius Malema: The opposition leader who has thrown Africa's oldest surviving political party into disarray again

The leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters party Julius Malema has accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of showing the country's constitutional court a "middle finger" following a judgement.
Mail & Guardian

Malema: MK party, not open border policy, is behind EFF’s 2024 electoral decline

Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema dismissed suggestions that the decline in support for his party in the 29 May general election was caused by its open border policy, arguing that the ...
Opinion

Julius Malema: South Africa’s performative revolutionary is facing his biggest battle

Julius Malema, the leader of South Africa’s fourth-largest party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), is a divisive figure: loved by some, hated by others. Malema made headlines in April 2026 after a ...

What next for South African opposition firebrand Malema after his five-year prison sentence?

The sentence raises huge questions marks over the political future of one of South Africa's most controversial politicians.
Reuters

South Africa's Malema says more than 60 ANC MPs will turn on Zuma

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - More than 60 ANC members in South Africa's parliament will back a no-confidence vote against President Jacob Zuma if the ballot is secret, the leader of the far-left Economic ...
The Africa Report

South Africa: Julius Malema calls for violence, cites Fanon

There would ultimately be a need to take up arms in order to take the land and mining resources from the “white-capitalist class”, South Africa‘s newly re-elected Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) ...