EFF denies funding #OccupyLuthuliHouse

Economic Freedom Fighters chairman Dali Mpofu has denied allegations by the ANC Youth League that he was behind the ‘OccupyLuthuliHouse’ campaign.

Johannesburg - The chairman of the Economic Freedom Fighters Dali Mpofu on Monday denied allegations by the ANC Youth League that he was behind the ‘OccupyLuthuliHouse’ campaign and gave the organisers R5 million he received from the USA.

Mpofu said the ANC was “applying repression” as it was a failing liberation movement.

“I have never even heard of that man called [ANCYL secretary Njabulo] Nzuza until this morning. The ANC should stop looking for scapegoats…third forces and ghosts. The problem is within the ANC, it has been rejected, not by us but by the people of South Africa,” Mpofu told reporters in Johannesburg.

Earlier, Nzuza told PowerFM that Mpofu gave R5 million sourced from the United States of America (USA) to the organisers calling for President Jacob Zuma and the entire African National Congress (ANC) national executive committee to resign.

The ‘OccupyLuthuliHouse’ demonstrators gathered a block away from the ANC headquarters on Monday to hand over a memorandum of grievances against the governing party’s leadership.

However, members of the MKMVA (the MK Veterans’ Association) and ANCYL, who had vowed to protect the headquarters against the demonstrators, turned up and sang revolutionary songs praising Zuma in front of the building.

The MKMVA members blocked the route to Luthuli House with the aim of preventing the demonstrators from handing over a memorandum.

Mpofu said the ANC was at war with itself.

“Every single day, its leaders condemn each other’s statements…its a complete disarray. Liberation movements die the same way the ANC is dying by using propaganda tools, proclaiming to rule until Jesus comes and so on. Then they move into capturing the state and go into a massive repression state…where you now see MK members assaulting the party members,” said Mpofu.

African News Agency