EFF leader Julius Malema wants former President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla home attached over the money he allegedly owes the red berets.

A report in The Citizen notes that there is bad blood between Malema and Zuma after several high-profile members left the EFF for Zuma’s MKP.

Speaking outside the Constitutional Court on Tuesday, Malema told thousands of party supporters he would fight Zuma, including going after alleged unpaid debts.

‘We brought Zuma to the Constitutional Court and we said, “pay back the money,” and he paid back the money and has not forgiven us for that,’ he said.

‘All the cases we won against Jacob Zuma, he never paid the legal fees. Zuma owes us legal fees. We have a court order that he must pay us our money. He has not complied with the court order,’ Malema said. 

He said if Zuma did not pay up he would 'come for Nkandla'.

‘We have instructed our lawyer to attach Nkandla so that the man pays back the money,’ he said.

In 2016 the Constitutional Court ordered Zuma to pay back the money for the upgrades on his Nkandla homestead. The court found that Zuma failed to uphold, defend and respect the Constitution as the supreme law of the land.

Full report in The Citizen

MKP will not entertain any of the EFF's mudslinging and attacks against their organisation, former EFF national chairperson and now MKP national command member Advocate Dali Mpofu is quoted as saying in a TimesLIVE report.

Instead, the party has identified the Parliament platform as a springboard from which to unite the parties, and hope it spills over to their political relations outside.

Mpofu said tensions between the two parties were exaggerated, claiming that tensions in politics are normal. However, he insisted the tensions between the parties will not affect the progressive caucus operations in Parliament.

‘The progressive caucus is the first black unity project. Parliament is a particular site of struggle and therefore it is much easier to organise those people, they are already there, there are only 400 of them. It is logical that the progressive caucus in Parliament should be the starting point. It is continuing and going very well.’

‘The introduction of a new player in the SA political landscape has to affect everybody. There is no single political party in this country that is unaffected by the emergence of this new, giant organisation.’

Full TimesLIVE report