{"id":6940,"date":"2013-07-10T07:16:56","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T07:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6940"},"modified":"2013-07-10T07:16:56","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T07:16:56","slug":"andile-mngxitama-in-talks-with-malema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6940","title":{"rendered":"Andile Mngxitama in talks with Malema"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6938\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6938\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/andile_ian.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6938\" alt=\"Andile with Aryan Kaganof [Ian Kerkhof]\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/andile_ian-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/andile_ian-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/andile_ian.jpg 433w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6938\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andile with Aryan Kaganof [Ian Kerkhof]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Black consciousness proponent Andile Mngxitama is in talks with Julius Malema\u2019s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) for a possible coalition ahead of next year\u2019s general elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But he said it was not yet a done deal and he was not one of the leaders set to be announced by the EFF at its advertised press conference on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mngxitama is one of the national coordinators and founders of the September National Imbizo, a movement for young people with a strong emphasis on nationalisation, land redistribution without compensation and keeping politicians and civil servants accountable by forcing them to use public facilities like state schools and hospitals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said he would meet leaders of the EFF tomorrow to talk about outstanding issues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mngxitama said his movement had considerable support but was currently busy with an audit to determine exactly how many supporters it has.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also invited other black consciousness movements and parties like the PAC to team up with them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an invitation to the press conference at Constitution Hill in Joburg, the EFF said they would announce the outcomes of a meeting by its \u201cNational Central Command Team\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It will also announce and introduce its interim leadership in provinces.<\/p>\n<p>The EFF will also announce plans for a \u201cnational assembly\u201d on July 27 in Soweto, where it would invite young people to tell them \u201cwhat is to be done\u201d. &#8211; City Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black consciousness proponent Andile Mngxitama is in talks with Julius Malema\u2019s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) for a possible coalition ahead of next year\u2019s general elections. But he said it was not yet a done deal and he was not one of the leaders set to be announced by the EFF at its advertised press conference &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6940\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Andile Mngxitama in talks with Malema&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[2635,3843,1391,3282,23],"class_list":["post-6940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-andile-mngxitama","tag-black-consciousness","tag-economic-freedom-fighters","tag-eff","tag-julius-malema"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/andile_ian.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6942,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6940\/revisions\/6942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}