EFF says it's going back to basics after disappointing 2024 elections showing
After successive growth at the polls since their inception, the red berets declined in the 2024 elections and lost their spot as the third most supported party to the uMkhonto weSizwe Party.
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JOHANNESBURG - Following a disappointing showing at the last general elections, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) said it is now going back to basics.
After successive growth at the polls since their inception, the red berets declined in the 2024 elections and lost their spot as the third most supported party to the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party.
The EFF is on Friday holding its first plenum since the party’s third National People’s Assembly in December.
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EFF Secretary General Marshall Dlamini said the plenum serves as a platform to map a way forward for the resolutions taken at the third National People’s Assembly.
"We are going back to the basics. That’s why I am saying that part of that assessment is to do away with that leadership and establish sub-regional structures that are going to be closer to our communities because, in some of the areas where we have suffered a loss or where we have stagnated, we have found there is a huge gap where the leaders themselves are not closer to our communities, and that becomes the downfall of political parties when the leadership moves away from the people they were supposed to be serving."