Wednesday, 18 February 2026 The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has taken note of the pronounced changes by the Executive Mayor of Ekurhuleni Nkosiphindile Xhakaza to the City’s Mayoral Committee, and his decision to unilaterally to remove two EFF Councillors from the Mayoral Committee.   Xhakaza has unilaterally removed EFF Councillor Bridget Thusi as the MMC […]

Tuesday, 17 February 2026 The Economic Freedom Fighters notes, with concern, the misleading Quarter 4 (2025) results of the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) report an official unemployment rate of 31.4%, down from 31.9% in Q3.   At face value, this 0.5 percentage point decline appears to signal modest improvement. According to the QLFS, the […]

Thursday, 12 February 2026. The Economic Freedom Fighters condemns, in the strongest terms, the refusal by National Treasury to allocate R120 million to the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) for the coverage of the upcoming 2026 Local Government Elections. The public broadcaster has now warned that it does not have sufficient funds to provide comprehensive […]

Thursday, 12 February 2026 The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) have listened to the 2026 State of the Nation Address (SONA) presented by Cyril Ramaphosa today with deep concern and profound disappointment. What South Africans witnessed was not a decisive break from the past, but a continuation of the same rhetoric that has characterised successive addresses […]

Tuesday, 10 February 2026 The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) welcomes the decision to rename the town of Graaff-Reinet to Robert Sobukwe Town, a long-overdue act of historical justice arising from a lawful and consultative public participation process concluded through the Eastern Cape Provincial Geographic Names Committee, and relevant statutory bodies.   This renaming is a […]

Tuesday, 10 February 2026. The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) condemns in the strongest possible terms, the decision by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) to approve even steeper electricity tariff increases for Eskom following court intervention. This decision once again confirms that the working class and the poor are being punished for the […]

Thursday, 05 February 2026   The EFF notes with serious concerns the continuation of the Food and Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak, considered to be one of the most problematic animal diseases because it is a contagious and very harmful to cloven hooved or even-toed ungulate livestock of both domestic and wild animal breed.   The […]

Wednesday, 04 February 2026   The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) successfully concluded the Second Plenum of the Third National People’s Assembly, held over the past weekend from the 30th of January to the 1st of February 2026, bringing together 668 delegates from across all structures of the movement.   The Plenum which resolved that the […]

Friday, 30 January 2026   The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) welcomes the principled and long-overdue decision by the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) to declare the Israeli Chargé d’Affaires, Ariel Seidman, persona non grata and to expel him from the Republic of South Africa.   This decision comes as a direct result of […]

Friday, 30 January 2026   The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) calls for the immediate removal, arrest and criminal prosecution of KZN Hawks Major General Lesetja Senona, whose testimony before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry has exposed conduct that is wholly incompatible with the responsibilities of a senior law-enforcement officer.   Over the course of his […]