The members have alleged violation of the party’s constitution as well as the rules governing the election that saw Julius Malema voted in as leader.
The latest suspensions follow the party’s suspension of Andile Mngxitama and MP Khanyisile Litchfield-Tshabalala on Tuesday.
The drama being played out in the Economic Freedom Fighters has all the characters and ingredients for a smash-hit television series.
Disenchanted EFF MPs have launched a campaign to "save" the EFF, and will approach the courts for an external audit of the party’s books.
The EFF said its decision to suspend the two is strictly an internal process and it will not be engaging the media about it beyond this point.
In an attempt to stop a press briefing held by Andile Mngxitama, an EFF faction committed to leader Julius Malema attempted to physically attack him.
From colonialism to apartheid and the present, South Africa’s fate appears to be guided by its libido.
Malema loyalists attacked EFF MP Andile Mngxitama as he attempted to address a press conference, saying he was "speaking without a mandate".
Julius Malema is happy that the EFF conference unfolded smoothly over the past few days without any blood spilled, and says it left the EFF united.
Tension between FF Plus and EFF MPs continues, this time at a land reform budget debate where Andile Mngxitama was kicked out.
A raucous exchange over who stole whose land led to the eviction of EFF MPs from Parliament – after which ANC leaders took up their fight.
The EFF has united a divided left and Steve Biko’s legacy goes beyond race and place, say M&G readers.
M&G readers speak their minds about the era of the EFF, about liberalism and Trotskyism and about presidential purging.
M&G readers speak their minds about policies against European culture in the arts and EFF commissar Andile Mngxitama’s open letter to Richard Branson.
Jared Sacks’s distortions are compatible with the historical white left’s hegemony, writes Athi Mongezeleli Joja.
A magical moment took place recently. A symbolic reconstitution of 60 000 into a single force in the form of Malema as Mao, writes Andile Mngxitama.
One M&G reader accuses Andile Mngxitama of black apartheid. Another appeals for the release of a US political prisoner.
A book relating three years of exchanges between Andile Mngxitama and Aryan Kaganof speaks of the failure of good race relations in a racist society.
Is the voice of Andile Mngxitama totally irrelevant unless filtered through white academic or organisational filters, asks Gillian Schutte.
This is the only public comment that I will make on the whole saga of the threats made against me by Andile Mngxitama, writes Jared Sacks.
There is already too much violence in our politics. Public intellectuals have a responsibility to denounce violence, say readers.
Commentator Andile Mngxitama has crossed the line of freedom of speech into the ugly territory of incitement to violence, writes Verashni Pillay.
Human rights activist Andile Mngxitama has raised the ire of his peers after threatening violence against a Mail & Guardian commentator.
Xolela Mangcu says Andile Mngxitama’s take on his writings about Steve Biko shows Mngxitama’s ‘contempt for black communities’.
The complex world of South Africa’s favourite thinking diva.
The ANC is accused of rewriting the past to give itself the starring role in the struggle.
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/ 16 September 2011
The hegemony of whiteness is real, but it is wrong to shackle us to a neo-apartheid race classification, says <b>Leon de Kock</b>.
The state has the power to bring balance to SA, but is instead acting as "a bodyguard of whiteness", Andile Mngxitama told the M&G Literary Festival.
Was Fanon perhaps right when he said ‘everything needs to be started over again’?
<i>Mail & Guardian</i> readers share their thoughts on alleged plagiarism, Osama bin Laden and more.
There is no benefit in voting for a hollow democracy that serves only the rich and elite, writes <b>Andile Mngxitama</b>.
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/ 17 November 2010
Our readers share their opinions on Andile Mngxitama’s column, the poultry cartel article, our coverage on Robert Gumede and more.