EFF reaffirms position on Mugabe to step down

SOUTH AFRICA - The Julius Malema led Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) on Tuesday reaffirmed their position on Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe.

Malema on Moday said Mugabe is dragging Zimbabwe and Africa down.

In a statement, EFF spokesperson Mbuyiseni Quintin Ndlozi  said "insistence that President Mugabe must lead to the grave is a sign that ZANU-PF is drowning in cowardice."


Read Full statement below:

EFF STATEMENT ON ZANU-PF'S RESPONSE TO CALLS FOR PRESIDENT MUGABE TO STEP DOW

The EFF reaffirms its position that President Mugabe's occupancy of the position of president is not good for the radical African political program. He is the bastion of the reactionary phenomenon of "lead to the death" that has crippled the image and praxis of post-colonial Africa. President Mugabe is not only the contemporary engine of personality cult, but he is protected by a group of cowards around him who hypocritically defend him everyday, whilst harbouring ambitions to lead soon.

We are unequivocal that revolutions ought to promote programs and not personalities. The continent needs heroes who will be able to stand firm on the objectives of the African revolution whilst allowing democratic practices and succession of leadership. His example is contradictory to this ideal since it directly or indirectly promotes the phenomenon of refusing to leave office until death.

Before the ZANU-PF and its youth wing respond to the EFF about the charge that they are cowards; they should ask themselves a simple question - what is revolutionary about being led by a person in old age; who sleeps all the time in meetings, can no longer even hold a pen or write half a page? Failure to respond to this question signifies not that they are afraid of others, but of President Mugabe.

When youth movement across the continent are fighting for change, questioning the transformation of liberation movements into old age homes and general gerontocracy. The ZANU-PF youth is instead defending and advancing an essentially anti-youth statuesque. This is because there is actually no youth in the ZANU-PF Youth; what you find are middle age men and women, half of which are suffering from a mid-life crises. They should be ashamed of themselves for holding the future from being born in Zimbabwe.

We shall never tell lies as revolutionaries; all the anti-colonial struggle icons like Oliver Tambo, Nelson Mandela, Julius Nyerere knew when it was enough and handed over the baton to others. The African revolution must always distance itself from all forms of personality cults; insistence that President Mugabe must lead to the grave is a sign that ZANU-PF is drowning in cowardice.

Mbuyiseni Quintin Ndlozi (EFF National Spokesperson)