Malema Unleashes Savage Attack on ANC-DA Alliance, Blasts 'Xenophobic Working Class' at Historic Left Conference

BY : CHANON LECODEY MERRICKS ONLINE EDITOR KASiBC_AFRiCA 

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BOKSBURG — Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Commander-in-Chief Julius Malema has launched a scathing political and ideological assault on the ruling African National Congress (ANC), accusing its leadership of permanently surrendering South Africa’s economic sovereignty to white monopoly capital through its governing coalition with the Democratic Alliance (DA).

Delivering a high-octane keynote address on Friday, 29 May 2026, at the historic Conference of the Left in Boksburg, Malema declared that the ANC-DA alliance represents the ultimate "ideological betrayal" of the liberation struggle.

'The ANC Confused Itself with Liberation'

Speaking to a packed plenary chamber that included top delegations from the South African Communist Party (SACP) and COSATU, Malema backed the SACP's recent observations that the ANC has become deeply insecure.

"The alliance between the ANC and the Democratic Alliance was a profound ideological revelation," Malema thundered. "One cannot credibly claim commitment to radical transformation while governing alongside forces historically dedicated to defending white monopoly capital, privatisation, and market fundamentalism."

Malema warned that the ANC has lost its historical legitimacy by confusing its own organizational survival with the broader aspirations of the working class. He stated that the democratic breakthrough of 1994 had successfully ended political apartheid while leaving "economic apartheid" completely intact through unequal land ownership and financial concentration.

Confronting 'Afrophobia' inside the Working Class

In one of the most politically charged segments of his address, the EFF leader turned his focus inward, taking aim at the growing wave of anti-migrant sentiment ripping through poor South African communities.

Malema slammed "Afrophobia" as a toxic manifestation of "false consciousness" engineered to trick the poor into fighting each other rather than fighting capitalism.

"Poor Africans from Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Nigeria, Somalia, or elsewhere on the continent are not responsible for unemployment, inequality, or collapsing public services," Malema argued. "Migrants did not privatise state capacity. Migrants did not concentrate ownership of land and industry. The attempt to redirect legitimate social anger away from capital and toward vulnerable African communities serves ultimately to protect the very structures responsible for mass suffering."

A Direct Challenge to the Paralysed Left

While offering revolutionary praise to countries like Cuba and Venezuela for successfully resisting U.S.-led imperialist blockades, Malema did not spare local socialist formations from heavy internal criticism.

He warned that while international capital coordinates across borders with clinical efficiency, Left-wing organizations in South Africa remain severely paralyzed by:

• Sectarianism and Ego: Endless internal turf wars and historical resentments.

• Rhetorical Radicalism: Substituting loud public speeches and performative social media activism for actual mass organization.

• Theoretical Comfort: Becoming "more comfortable analyzing oppression than constructing power capable of defeating it."

The Ultimate Blueprint: The 7 Pillars

Malema concluded by reminding the delegates that the EFF’s baseline policy positions are the only logical material answers to pull South Africa out of its current structural crisis, where expanded unemployment sits at a catastrophic 43%.

He demanded that any unified Left-wing front must adopt the EFF's core operational agenda:

Pillar 1	Expropriation of land without compensation for equal redistribution.
Pillar 2	Nationalisation of mines, banks, and strategic economic sectors.
Pillar 3	Building state capacity and completely abolishing the tender/outsourcing system.
Pillar 4	Provision of free, quality education, healthcare, housing, and sanitation.
Pillar 5	Massive protected industrial development to generate sustainable local jobs.
Pillar 6	Pan-African economic development — moving from reconciliation to absolute justice.
Pillar 7	Open, transparent, and completely corruption-free governance.

"History has never moved automatically toward justice," Malema concluded, calling on the conference to move past being a mere "ritual gathering of progressive rhetoric" and instead become the launchpad for a disciplined, aggressive, and highly coordinated socialist alternative.

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