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South Africa: EFF co‑founder Shivambu has jumped ship – what just happened?
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Published on 11/12/2023

 

Floyd Shivambu, a founding leader of South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters and party leader Julius Malema’s wing man, has defected to Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe Party in a surprise move. What made him do it?

The Economic Freedom Fighters called an urgent press conference on Thursday for the deputy president and co-founder Floyd Shivambu to announce his departure from the political party – which he has helped build to become the third biggest opposition party in South Africa.

 
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