Malema is prepared for the party's 10th anniversary!

On Tuesday, February 28, THE EFF kicked off their 10-year celebration at Constitutional Hill in Johannesburg.

This is the same location that Julius Malema, the party's leader, and Floyd Shivambu, his deputy, announced their intention to launch a political party in July 2013.

This took place following their controversial departure from the ANC Youth League.

Malema declared in a statement to the media that after ten years of existence, they have credibly decided that they are prepared to lead South Africa.

Malema claimed that the EFF is an anti-capitalist, anti-sexist, anti-corruption, and anti-racist protest group.

This gallant movement for economic emancipation has grown in leaps and bounds since the fateful question of what is to be was asked at Uncle Tom’s Hall in Soweto, 10 years ago.

“Formed after the painful Marikana Massacre, which proved to be a decisive moment in post-democratic South Africa, the EFF has been a response to centuries of land dispossession and the humiliation of colonial conquest which still defines South Africa today,” he said.

Malema said it was the Marikana Massacre that shifted the national consciousness of the nation and provided the bitter realisation that the former liberation movement had indeed abandoned the poor and collaborated with white-monopoly capital to murder mine workers.

“Today, the EFF reaches a decade of existence, which has been defined by an unbroken commitment to the liberation of our people. It has been 10 years of resilience, bravery and selflessness, despite the many doomsayers who tried to frame the EFF as destined for failure,” he said.

Highlighting some their success, Malema said as it stands, the party has more than 1 000 public representatives, who are present in Parliament, provincial legislatures and councils across the country.

He said the EFF Caucus tabled a motion of land expropriation without compensation, which was adopted and has led to the farmland release programme of the Ekurhuleni metro.

“The EFF Caucus in the Free State Legislature exposed Estina-Vrede Dairy Farm corruption and maladministration,” he said.

He further said leading up for their 10-year anniversary, they will host a celebration with the people of Marikana at the koppie on 26 July before heading to the FNB Stadium on 29 July.

“This celebration will be to honour those whose blood nourishes the soil at Marikana, and whose lives continue to inspire our determination to bring dignity to the lives of black people,” he said.