Confusion reigns supreme in the EFF

Elizabeth Sibuyi of Mbombela writes:

It’s hardly been a year since the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) entered the political playing field.

As a community, we would play a crucial role in providing worthy opposition to the ANC at national, regional and local governance, however, we are disappointed now that we’ve heard of a split within them with the emergence of the new EFF within their midst.

Something is very wrong in South African politics, I must say. First it was the Pan Africanist Congress in 1958 which split from the ANC and today it is a shadow of its former self.

Then followed the Congress of the People (COPE) which also failed to exert a worthy opposition to the ANC in all spheres. Agang failed to rise to the occasion even before the last elections commenced, which was a total disaster.

We, as a community, feel that the political playing field should be levelled so that there is real democracy in our legislatures at national, provincial and local level.

However, it is not happening because the ANC majority prevents a diversity of leadership values to be in action at those platforms because majority rules.

It is always the ANC’s word that rules, no matter what. You begin to think, why are they splitting from the ANC when they couldn’t even fight it from inside while they were there?

If it is a difference of ideology, are there no political schools to correct all those wrongs? Surely, if the ANC was born to be here until Jesus Christ returns, then if the kind of action of leaders is anything to go by, they certainly shall continue ruling this country because people are not doing their homework.

What happens in their respective organisations after they split from it, is anybody’s guess: they fight over positions instead of concentrating on the matter on the table, hence the splits. Meanwhile, the ANC has its own battles before conferences, but regroups afterwards in the name of the organisation sustaining its rule. If you can’t beat them, why not join them?