Johannesburg-Winnie Madikizela-Mandela said on Sunday that EFF leader Julius Malema had not approached her to join his party, according to a report.

“No he hasn’t not at all…. I have not even seen him since he [started the Economic Freedom Fighters]. I belong to the African National Congress. I am the ANC,” she was quoted by the Sunday Independent newspaper as saying.

According to the newspaper, Madikizela-Mandela said she had known Malema would do something after he was expelled from the ANC.

“I can’t blame Julius for what he has done because we, the ANC, are responsible for that. I cautioned my organisation at the time.”  She reportedly said she felt Malema should have rather been ”contained” within the ANC, as now, with him outside the party: “He can do more damage”.

“We would be foolish to think he is not a player or that he is not changing the political landscape in some way. These are very dangerous and worrying times.”

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