Julius Malema talks 'love and hate' in up-down relationship with Pravin Gordhan
14 February 2020
Just because two people divorce, didn't mean they never loved one another.
This was how EFF leader Julius Malema described the party's recent onslaught against Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan, having initially defended Gordhan a few years ago.
On Thursday, the EFF stalled proceedings at the State of the Nation Address (SONA) for over an hour while they repeatedly called for the removal of Gordhan from President Cyril Ramaphosa's Cabinet. They also demonstrated against the presence of apartheid-era president FW de Klerk at the event.
But it was at the end of 2016 when Malema's party actually called on South Africans to support then-finance minister Gordhan amid the so-called SARS rogue unit charges and alleged there were plans to force Gordhan out as head of Treasury.