Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) national chairperson Veronica Mente has seemingly responded to party president Julius Malema’s demand that members publicly show their loyalty to the Red Berets. On Monday evening, Malema castigated certain members, without naming them, as being silent during a pivotal moment for the party, in light of former deputy president Floyd Shivambu and EFF MP Mzwanele Manyi leaving the organisation last Thursday for uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party.

“Where are their voices when our movement is under attack?” Malema asked. But on Tuesday evening, Mente moved to pledge her allegiance to the party. Mente remains member of the EFF “My membership [of the EFF] was renewed on the 17th of July,” Mente said on Metro FM. Mente also poured cold water on perceptions that the party was in a crisis, triggered by their underwhelming 2024 elections performance, and now exacerbated by Shivambu’s defection to the Jacob Zuma-led MK Party. “The EFF is going nowhere. The EFF is here to stay. “People are using this moment to try and create a crisis moment. There is no crisis,” Mente said.

Asked by a caller if she would be throwing her hat into the ring for the vacated position of deputy president come the EFF’s National People’s Assembly elective conference in December, Mente was coy. Continue reading “We have not discussed issues of positions,” she responded, reiterating the EFF’s stability.