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Malema said the ANC tried to lure them with positions but they stood firm on the demands the party made ahead of the coalition talks.

Dont try and obsess us with positions, we are obsessed with the land. Anything that is going to deliver the land, we will deliver it into any municipality. We want the land. We are fighting battles of our forefathers that they could not conquer.

Why do you want us to stop when we can see potential of getting the land by giving them their minuscule municipality and we take the land? Why? because we want the land and we did a commitment that we will get land in our lifetime and we are going to do everything in our power to deliver the land.

Theirs, Malema said, was to kill the ANC but if we say guys lets combine our numbers in parliament and pass a law that women get free sanitary towels, why would you say we shouldnt speak to the ANC about that which has a potential for women to get free sanitary towels?

We are not saying lets combine our numbers and put Malema as deputy president, we say lets combine our numbers to pass a law for clinics to open 24 hours. You come and say CCT dont speak to the ANC, hey man we are still waiting for 2024 to rule but what if there is an opportunity to deliver this thing quickly before 2024? asked Malema.

He also took a swipe at ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba who just days after rejecting the EFF's deal to work together in hung municipalities has also seemingly been left out in the cold after the DA refused to support his mayoral ambitions in Johannesburg.

It's politics my child, dont act like Mashaba and say I dont talk to, I dont talk to now he is unable to get the mayorship with this I dont talk to thing of being too forward. Just walking around not knowing politics.

Malema has also defended his decision to have tea with former president Jacob Zuma ahead of his incarceration for refusing to appear before the state capture commission of inquiry.

Others are saying we lost elections because Malema went to drink tea with Zuma. What if that tea is the one that moved us from five to three in KZN in eThekwini?

If that tea was hitting us it was supposed to hit us there first. No it didnt, I dont know how they are looking at this maths. From five to three Malema you cost us votes from eight councillors to 24 councillors in eThekwni after the tea.

He said he went to Nkandla to tell Zuma that he will get arrested should he remain steadfast in his refusal to appear before the commission of inquiry into state capture.

I didnt go there to beg Zuma for anything, I went there to tell Zuma to go to the commission. Now youre fighting with me to tell a person to do the right thing, you say we cant vote for you because you went to drink tea but I didnt just drink tea, I was telling this old man that youre going to be arrested if you dont go to the commission. Did he not get arrested? He didnt listen. Had he listened to me, he would not have gone to jail, Malema said.

Malema has maintained that this was to convince Zuma to do the right thing and if that has cost the EFF votes then he was prepared to take any form of punishment, including being removed from his leadership position.

I will never stop telling people to do the right thing. If that is going to cost us votes so be it. Im prepared to go home at my grandmothers house because theres no-one there. Go live there and let you be with your EFF that you want to lead with lies, saying we should not go around telling people the truth that they must go to the commission. Youre saying that is wrong when we ask a person to comply with the law of SA.

We will never stop telling the truth. It doesnt matter how much it will cost us but the truth will remain the truth and one day it will pay off. They will thank us that these are the people who liberated us.

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