The EFF leader Julius Malema has once again called on South Africans to join the planned national shutdown on the 20th of March against the continuing load shedding.
Speaking during the Andries Tatane clean-up campaign over the weekend at Lichtenburg in the North West, Malema said the march also aims to pressure President Cyril Ramphosa to resign.
“Load shedding is a big problem. The ANC will not solve it because the ANC is hell-bent on eating the money at Eskom. And for as long as the ANC is in power, we will continue to have a problem of load shedding.
“That is why the EFF has called for a national shutdown on the 20th of March, where all South Africans are at a little corner wherever they are going to stand up and say enough is enough.
“We cannot have a load shedding and just fold our arms. This government will think that if we accept this nonsensical load shedding, only when we stand up and occupy the streets will the people who are in government start taking this matter seriously.
“We demand that the President must resign. We are in this mess because of him. He is indecisive, corrupt.
“ Today we are grey listed because we have become a haven of money laundering and terrorism funding, that is why we are in this mess. What if the money that was in the sofas of the President was going to fund terrorism?” Malema asked.
He criticised Ramaphosa’s move to address the country’s energy crisis by the appointment of the Minister of Electricity.
“When he said he is going to appoint a Minister of Electricity, which we rejected. He said he does so because the matter is urgent. What is urgent now? After 10 days, you can see that he was just bluffing us. You can see that he was just pretending to be having solutions he doesn’t have.
“The President does not have solutions. The Minister of Electricity is not a solution. The solution is stopping corruption,” he said.
“The situation of the country has worsened since Ramaphosa took over. He was elected on a ticket of anti-corruption. The matters have become worse. Their darling Andre De Ruyter told them that the ANC wants to milk Eskom.
“The Minister told him that as he does his job, he must allow people to eat in Eskom. We told them he has no capacity to solve the problem of Eskom. But they said he has got capacity.
“Today maybe people will believe us because it has been said by a white man that the ANC wants to finish what is left of Eskom,” Malema said.
Reacting to ANC Secretary General, Fikile Malula’s threats to take legal action against De Ruyter, Malema said no action will be taken by the ANC.
“He is blowing hot air. He knows that. There is no action that he can take against Eskom’s former CEO. Chancellor House, which is an ANC company, was involved in the construction of the Medupi Power Station to solve this problem that we are confronted with. Today that power station is not giving us what we have paid for and because the ANC companies were involved in that corruption.
“I he knows what is good for him and the ANC, he will keep quiet. If they are pushing that white man. He will start revealing their names and it will not be nice for them.
“So let him take chances, he will regret the day that he was born. And that will be an official unveiling of the tombstone of the ANC,” he said.