Baleka Mbete suspended Parliament after EFF members started banging on their hard hats shouting "we want the money" and "Nkandla must be paid".
Economic Freedom Fighters MPs want President Jacob Zuma to pay back the money spent on Nkandla, causing uproar in Parliament on Thursday.
M&G readers write in about the EFF and freedom of speech, and how Thuthukile Zuma’s job is an insult to our democracy.
The Economic Freedom Fighters has hogged headlines since its entrance in May. Party leader Julius Malema says "you can’t be an EFF MP and be shy".
Julius Malema has threatened mass protest following the Gauteng Legislature’s decision to bar EFF’s members from wearing their red uniforms.
Gauteng is meant to have ruled on whether overalls are appropriate in the halls of power, but the red berets seem happy working outside the house.
The EFF is a metaphor for the structural incompleteness of SA’s democracy.
Julius Malema told supporters at the party’s first anniversary celebrations in Soweto that the EFF was already "playing in the big leagues".
It’s the EFF’s first birthday and the party was in the wars again. But Malema maintains he is no monster – he listens, reflects and can be won over.
The legislature should not be fixated on clothes, and the EFF should stop their gimmicks. There is work to be done.
After 10 years of torpor, SA’s fifth Parliament seems to have entered an interesting and perhaps more important phase, with plenty of possibilities.
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.
One of four Limpopo mayors recalled from office by the ANC has resigned from his position as a councillor, he said on Saturday.
Despite talk of reconciliation and non-racialism in SA, the colonial status quo remains in our country.
Thanks to the Gauteng ANC’s short-sighted action over the EFF’s uniforms, Julius Malema has been neatly handed his next political theatre script.
Letter from Parliament: EFF MP Andile Mngxitima believes that actually, the struggle against power is the struggle to return meaning to words.
The recently launched "radical" Namibia Economic Freedom Fighters has already set strong anti-homosexuality and resource management agendas.
Africanism and black consciousness make up a perennial trend in our politics. They are not going to die.
When there is corruption and the state is struggling to deal with pressing social issues a strong figure can become attractive to many people.
The EFF leaders’ ongoing Zuma-bashing has cost them a member committed to economic freedom.
Politics aside, South Africans share aspirations for economic growth under legitimate leadership.
If you want to get paid and laid, be a follower. If you want to get an education, listen to Julius Malema.
The EFF are in Parliament to pursue a revolution, not rules, Julius Malema said on Friday, as his party staged a protest outside the legislature.
The family of Mbuyisa Makhubu, photographed in 1976 carrying a dying Hector Pieterson, wants to stop the "unlawful" use of his name for profits.
Economic Freedom Fighters members say regional leaders are being sidelined in favour of former youth leaguers.
M&G readers speak their minds about the era of the EFF, about liberalism and Trotskyism and about presidential purging.
With apologies to creator George RR Martin and anyone else to whom we couldn’t pay royalties, the M&G parodies Game of Thrones with SA politics.
Julius Malema’s third attempt to reach a settlement with Sars has succeeded. He apologised and has agreed to disclose his finances in full to Sars.
Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema and party member Dali Mpofu fired up the crowd at a gathering to celebrate the EFF’s election success.
EFF members walked out of a New Age breakfast briefing after they were excluded from a discussion panel, which it says it was invited to join.
The red berets have won over a large number of former ANC supporters in North West, despite the party being less than a year old.