The EFF has confirmed that Selloane Motjeane, the first-ever EFF mayor, has resigned from her position in Metsimaholo, Free State, only three days after taking the job.
Julius Malema explained the situation during a media briefing that the party decided to ask Motjeane to step down because she earned her mayoral position with votes from the ANC. The EFF had dramatically withdrawn its support for the ruling party last week.
Malema has taken a principled position, arguing that the EFF don’t want a serving mayor who has been supported by the ANC. They’d much rather go their own way and if need be, the EFF plans to ask the DA to support Motjeane for re-election when the vote is held. If that fails, they have a Plan B.
Plan B is that should they fail to convince the DA to support the EFF candidate, Julius will instruct his comrades to vote for the DA’s mayoral candidate instead as they are hellbent on keeping the ANC out of power:
“We have asked our mayor to resign with immediate effect. That’s because she became mayor through votes from the ANC. We do not vote with the ANC, even if they want to vote with us. She was so happy, she told us that ANC people were already demanding illegal things from her, immediately after the election. She remains our mayoral candidate in Metsimaholo. We will ask the DA to vote with us, but if they don’t want, we will side with them – we just don’t want the ANC in charge. So Selloane Motjeane has now officially resigned,” said Malema.
Sources: MSN, SA uncut
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