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EFF members: "We won a ward!" EFF haters: "It's just a ward!" Next elections EFF wins a municipality. EFF haters: "It's just a municipality not a province!" EFF wins a provincial election. EFF haters: "Malema will never be a President!" Me:

Boy Mamabolo Claims Ramaphosa Helped Pay Legal Fees After Malema Defamation Case Former African National Congress (ANC) Member of Parliament Boy Mamabolo has alleged that the ANC parliamentary caucus deliberately deployed him to launch a personal attack on Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema during a 2020 State of the Nation Address (SONA) debate, framing it as part of the party's broader obsession with countering Malema. Mamabolo, speaking on the Just Talk With DJ Cappuccino podcast on 19 May 2026, claimed the move was intended to defend then-ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa amid political tensions. "The issue of attacking Julius was a caucus decision of the ANC," he said. "They said, 'we are going to attack him, and the only person who can attack him is Boy.'" The accusation originated during the February 2020 SONA debate, when Mamabolo publicly claimed, based on unverified rumours that Malema was abusing his wife, Mantoa Matlala. The statement triggered a high-profile defamation lawsuit from the Malemas. Mamabolo eventually apologised, retracted the claims, and reached an out-of-court settlement. He has now revealed the legal battle cost him around R300,000, nearly leading to his financial ruin. According to Mamabolo, President Ramaphosa stepped in to assist with the fallout, contributing or helping raise approximately R173,000 toward his legal fees after the party allegedly abandoned him. He expressed deep resentment, accusing the ANC of using him as a pawn and then discarding him when the consequences mounted. A plea from the Bjatladi Traditional Council warning that the party was "feeding him to the hyenas" reportedly went unheeded. Mamabolo and Malema share a long history, having grown up in the same Limpopo community and risen through the ranks of COSAS and the ANC Youth League before their paths diverged politically. Their rivalry has been marked by public barbs, including Malema previously referring to Mamabolo as his former "ice boy." The revelations have reignited debates about ANC-EFF tensions and internal party tactics. Neither the ANC nor the Presidency had issued an official response at the time of publication. Malema and the EFF have not yet commented on the latest claims.

Boy Mamabolo has confessed that they always lied about Julius Malema. ANC members are always deployed to attack Julius Malema in Parliament.

@NevondoRi @MorningLiveSABC So you have no problem with fuel hikes as long as you hate EFF that's what you can think of?

@MorningLiveSABC Only if the same energy was shown when dealing with illegal foreigners, but fighting our own and distract the work of the government EFF is number 1

An application by the Economic Freedom Fighters, challenging the Finance minister's authority to determine and adjust the fuel levy, will be heard in the Cape Town High court this morning. #MorningLive #SABCNews

@shabarax @MorningLiveSABC @SABCNews @Newzroom405 @eNCA @Powerfm987 @Action4SA @ourda It's always the case

@MorningLiveSABC After the win, @SABCNews @Newzroom405 @eNCA @Powerfm987 they will be inviting @Action4SA @OurDA to analyze the outcome...

@GaytonMcK "Phala-Phala" please read, internalize then comment

These National Orders have been awarded every year since 2002, by every President since Thabo Mbeki onwards. You just say whatever pops into your head sometimes. Take a moment to think things through.

@Thulanizondani2 @Thefixist @Mzansiawake But why are taking the fight to EFF why not starting from the top, we not voting everyday but every day its EFF this EFF that why not your beloved ANC that my concerned?

@Mente_Ps @Thefixist @Mzansiawake They are the loud ones in protecting that nonsense......the ANC cancer we dealing with it at the ballot box.....so if EFF are going to be cheerleaders to nonsense then they are part of the problem

What Malema did on the podcast with JJ Tabane wasn’t just denying a claim. He was pointing out why the claim exists in the first place. It’s not really about policy. It’s about fear. Fear that if you say African dignity belongs to everyone living here, then there’s less left for South Africans. It makes people think dignity is like a pie - if someone else gets a piece, yours gets smaller. But dignity doesn’t work like that. It’s more like air. It’s not used up when others breathe it. The reason this myth keeps going is because it’s useful to some people. It’s easier to be angry at a foreign trader on the street than at a broken municipality, a police service that doesn’t show up, and an economy that hasn’t created jobs for 30 years. When poor South Africans and poor Africans fight each other, neither asks why there’s so little to go around. Being honest doesn’t mean pretending crime doesn’t happen. People of every nationality commit crimes. But you don’t protect South Africans by pretending only foreigners are the problem. You protect everyone by fixing policing, borders, and jobs. Our Constitution already made this choice. It says “South Africa belongs to all who live in it.” Not just those born here. That line came from people who knew what it felt like to be exiled and told they didn’t belong. @Mzanziawake

@Bongsnhlapho1 @Mzansiawake Is he a health minister, why aren't you not taking your fight to your darling GNU?

@Mzansiawake He doesn't have to compete for health services in hilbow clinic where there's a quota of 15 tooth extractions per day. You find that that there's 10 Zimbabweans who see no irony in haggling with South Africans about who is first in line.

@GavinMabie @Mzansiawake Your darling ANC is still saying it, but your anger is projected to the EFF and Malema

@Mzansiawake South Africa belongs to all who live in it was used with reference to the homeland system, not to the entire universe.

@Thefixist @Mzansiawake Illegal foreigners were there even before EFF was created , the influx started when your darling ANC took power. EFF is not in charge of any department but your GNU is, why aren't you people fighting the right people. Other r saying what Malema has been bt they don't get insulted

What a lazy take. This has less to do with dignity and more to do with resources. State resources - electricity, water, health care, policing etc are spread thinly which exercabates the difficulty of access to same resources for South Africans. You also cannot ignore the fact that illegal immigrants, estimated to be about 2% of our population, make up about 13% of prison populations. You cannot wish away the idea that a significant portion of Nigerians in South Africa live off some form of criminal activity. - drugs, prostitution, trafficking, fraud etc.

@Enzo___5 @Simon_Sithole20 @EFFSouthAfrica Atleast EFF tried, you didn't even lift a finger to white racists. You only know the vulnerable broom sellers and garden boys fighting for the scrubs falling of the tables of your white gods

@Mente_Ps @Simon_Sithole20 @EFFSouthAfrica They moered your useless ground forces 10-0 and you guys ran and hid like the rats you are, you'd obviously know a lot about cowardice 😂

MALEMA: The Minister of Home Affairs is a DA Minister, BUT they never marched to the Minister of Home Affairs who is responsible for ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. WHY? They are scared of WHITE PEOPLE #EFFWorkersDayRally

@PempheroMphande @iam_CARNETIUS They are afraid to confront white people,they know very well its white people who are employing the so-called foreigners and worse it's the same black people who are giving the so-called illegal foreigners their RDP houses to open spaza shops but they don't confront them.

Help me understand. Why is Julius Malema, leader of an opposition party getting more blame for the struggles of South Africans than Cyril Ramaphosa?

@PulseOnlineInfo @EFFSouthAfrica Another coward defending nonsense, why then insulting EFF that doesn't hold any ministry in your beloved GNU?

@EFFSouthAfrica We will march to whoever we want, whenever!! We will not be directed by him!!!

@LixMiller @EFFSouthAfrica Then march to Luthuli house and stop insulting the opposition party who doesn't even have any ministry in your beloved GNU. Not a single day you people marched to parliament against GNU about this.

@EFFSouthAfrica in 1997, the then Minister of Home Affairs Buthelezi’s estimation was that the number of illegal foreigners in South Africa was “between 2.5 and 5 million... But you want to march to someone who has only been in this seat since 30 June 2024 😆😆

@Simon_Sithole20 @EFFSouthAfrica Says one of the cowards who are afraid of white people, you people you hate black people even when they are speaking the truth.

@EFFSouthAfrica This clearly sounds like gossip at the highest level...South Africans will march to whoever they want to march to and in their own time!!

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India is not to be trusted @BRICSinfo must remove it if it cannot tow the line.

@World_Affairs11 @MaandaB3 BRICS must kickout India once and for all because India today says this then tomorrow it says something else.

BREAKING: India rejects an offer of BRICS countries to trade in local currencies instead of the US dollar.

@HermanLappies @HistorySAZAR With the involvement of Vlakplass right?

@Mente_Ps @HistorySAZAR The fact is that thousands more black people were killed by black people during apartheid than the govt. Even under the ANC regime thousands more were killed than all that died during apartheid. FACT: Apartheid oppressed people but also provided for them.

June 1976 - Dead bodies lie in front of an army vehicle near Mzimhlope, just days after June 16. The police had been instructed to squash the resistance using whatever force was necessary, and so the killings continued. Credit: Through My Lens/Alf Kumalo

@HermanLappies @HistorySAZAR It doesn't matter which vehicle is it, the fact remains that black people where killed fighting for their freedom in the hands of apartheid government

@HistorySAZAR LIES! It's a "SAP" police vehicle. How many days, how many bodies and exactly where did this happen? Stop selling pathetic lies.