Ramaphosa REFUSES To Resign, Malema Calls Himself MANDELA & EFF EXPOSES Themselves On Live TV

Added: 2026-05-19

[00:00:00]Last night, Union Buildings, Ptoria, South Africa's president, sat in front of a camera and said four words that will define the next 6 months of this country's political life. I will not resign. Welcome back to the show. I'm your host, the Summer Sambit, host of the show, The Summer Sambit. And today we are unpacking one of the biggest political moments South Africa has seen since 1994.

[00:00:31]Because what happened last night was not just a press conference. It was a declaration of war. Perhaps a war within the ANC. Before we continue, if this show adds value to your life, if you somehow believe that South Africa does indeed need more voices willing to say what others won't, you can just buy me a coffee. Links in the description below.

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[00:01:06]Because I don't bow. I don't withdraw.

[00:01:10]and we will never apologize for telling the truth. We will continue the summer movement. Think for yourself. That's all I'm saying. Let's go back to the beginning for context. What is Pala Pala and why on earth does it matter? And why on earth should my generation and other generations care about it? Well, in 2022, a story broke out that sounded like fiction. foreign currency US dollars dollars had allegedly been hidden inside furniture at President Sir Raaposa's Palapala game farm in Limpopo.

[00:01:45]The farm was allegedly burgled, right?

[00:01:49]They robbed it. It was hijacked. They broke into it. The money was allegedly recovered and none of it was reported to the police or to the South African Reserve Bank as required by the law.

[00:02:04]The amount reported ranged from $580,000 to over $4 million depending on who you asked. Everyone had a different number in their heads. Bottom line, it was all hidden in a couch on a game farm by the president of the Republic of South Africa, Siril Ramaposa. An independent section 89 panel was appointed to investigate this entire situation. That panel found that Ramaposa may have violated his oath of office. It recommended that Parliament proceed with impeachment proceedings.

[00:02:41]Parliament controlled by the ANC influenced by the African National Congress voted in December 2022 to reject the panel's report and block the impeachment process. Coincidence? I don't know. The whole thing appeared to be very fishy and the whole thing appeared to be over until last week because the constitutional court ruled that the National Assembly acted very irrationally in December 2022 when it blocked the referral of the section 89 panel report. The Concord set aside that decision and then they ordered the National Assembly to establish an impeachment committee.

[00:03:27]In plain language, the highest court in South Africa basically said Parliament broke the law to protect the president and now Parliament must go back and do what it should have done in 2022.

[00:03:47]And then Ramaposa addressed the nation last night because that's basically his signature move, right? Since a criminal complaint was laid against me in June 2022, I have consistently maintained that I have not stolen public money, committed any crime, nor violated my oath of office. His words, he announced that he will seek a judicial review of the independent panel's report and will not resign from office. To all the conspiracy theorists who thought Ramaposa would resign, I'm sorry. I told you it wasn't going to happen and it didn't. Next time, don't toot your own horns. He also said, "I therefore want to make it clear that I will not resign.

[00:04:36]To do so would be a would be to preempt a process defined by the constitution."

[00:04:43]His words, not mine. Now, let me be fair. He does have a legal point. The conc did not find him guilty. I said this, it did not say he should resign.

[00:04:52]It's that's what was advised. It said parliament acted unlawfully in blocking the process. They broke the law to protect him. Those are different things.

[00:05:01]You can't resign based on a process that hasn't even concluded. That's utter rubbish. Legally, that announce that argument holds water. But here's my problem.

[00:05:12]The political reality is damning regardless of the legal technicalities.

[00:05:19]We are only six months away from a municipal election on the 4th of November 2026.

[00:05:28]The ANC is already struggling in major metros. Johannesburg, Tuane, and other background municipalities are teetering. Voter apathy is at record highs. A recent report found that only 31% of voters believed the current electoral system truly reflected the will of the people. Which means only 31% of us who vote are the ones left who actually believe the elections are fair.

[00:05:59]And now the ANC goes into that election with an impeachment committee hanging over its president's head like a dark cloud. And what does he do? like the Undertaker doing a choke slam in the WWE, he addresses the nation. That is not a technicality. That is a political catastrophe in slow motion. Opposition parties, including the EFF and the African Transformation Movement, ATM, are demanding he leaves office. They are demanding it. They're fighting for this.

[00:06:29]They've been fighting. The ATM and MK party have already filed no confidence motions in parliament. The DA is pushing for the impeachment committee to move immediately because this is their chance right to overthrow the ANC. And now all of this through all of this Guandash stood in front of the cameras and then he said he is ready to go through a process. He will take he will not take shortcuts that nobody expects of him just to resign and walk away. That's what he said. Shortcuts, right? That's what they're calling accountability.

[00:07:08]Now, so being accountable is taking shortcuts. Now, here's my honest take.

[00:07:14]I'm not saying Ramaposa is guilty. As much as we'd like that and we know it, I'm not saying he is yet. The process must conclude. That is what a constitutional democracy requires. You voted for a democratic country. Well, there you have it. But I'm saying this, a president who has undeclared foreign currency on a game farm and then doesn't report a burglary of that money, guilty or not, has a credibility problem that no legal argument can fully fix. That's the fact. The optics are catastrophic.

[00:07:51]While South Africans couldn't afford electricity, while the hospitals were busy running out of medicine and the illegal foreigners were smuggling medicine out of here to Zimbabwe, while students waited for NES funding, the president had enough undeclared foreign currency on his farm furniture to make the reserves bank eyes water. And then now he wants us to trust the process.

[00:08:18]the process he authorized that he's influencing. Fine, we will trust the process. But South Africa and every voter heading to the polls in November, I ask that you watch watch the process very very closely. This this process he wants you to trust. Because here is the uncomfortable truth no one wants to say.

[00:08:41]If the impeachment committee finds sufficient grounds and parliament still protects him, that won't just be a political scandal. That will be the moment South Africa's constitutional democracy gets tested in ways it has never been tested before.

[00:09:03]We trust the constitution. All right, I'm going to be the good South African citizen. We trust it. We don't always trust the people operating it.

[00:09:13]So if what I said just mattered to you, if you believe South Africa deserves honest, fearless coverage, then consider liking and subscribing. A lot of you just watch my videos and then you you leave and then you don't subscribe. You come back and watch again the next day and then you still don't subscribe. And in case you're wondering how I know, don't worry about it.

[00:09:39]I know everything about you. No, I'm kidding. But yeah, like and subscribe. I also need to tell you another thing. You see, there are moments in politics where a person says something so breathtaking, so historically illiterate, so profoundly stupid and disconnected from reality that you have to stop whatever you are doing and just sit with it for a second. Why am I saying all of this out of nowhere? Well, your favorite politician, Julius Malemma, has given us one of those moments again. He doesn't stop. I mean, he was speaking during the EFF youth campaign on Sunday, May 11th, 2026. And then MMA compared his situation to anti-apartate struggle icons including Nelson Mandela. Yes, that Mandela. Walter Culu. Yes, that Walter Sulu and that Oliver Tambbo.

[00:10:36]>> I'm on the same status like Mandela, like Sisulu and Tambbo. I didn't do any crime or kill anyone. I'm arrested for politics.

[00:10:47]Now, I'm going to need a moment here and adjust my glasses because we need to be very clear about what Julius MMA has just done.

[00:10:56]He in front of many children has just compared himself in front of all these young people. This is a man convicted of discharging a firearm in a crowd in front of 20,000 of his own supporters.

[00:11:08]That guy compared himself to Nelson Mandela, a man who spent 27 years in prison fighting for a system of racial oppression that classified human beings as subhuman based on the color of their skin. MMA wouldn't be doing what he was doing if it wasn't for Mandela. The comparison is not just wrong. It is an insult to Mandela, to Ceulu, to Tambbo, to every person who actually suffered under Aparate.

[00:11:39]A spit in the face to all those black families and to South Africa's collective memory. Basically, let's talk about what Mandela actually did because some of you actually don't know. Nelson Mandela was imprisoned in 1964 after being convicted of sabotage against an aparate state that denied him and millions of others their basic humanity. This is when they were calling him a terrorist and everything. He spent 27 years on Robin Island. He was offered release multiple times on condition that he renounced his political beliefs. each and every time he refused.

[00:12:18]When he finally walked free in 1990, he didn't emerge with revenge in his heart. He didn't sing Kill the Bua, kill the farmer. He emerged with a vision for a country that could include everyone.

[00:12:32]He negotiated a transition that most political scientists said was impossible. He gave up power willingly after one term. when he could have stayed and gave it to Becky. That is Mandela, right? A quick little history lesson. Now, let's talk about what Malemma actually did. Yes, both their names, both their surnames start with an M and end with an A, but they are two very, very different individuals. You see, on the 1st of October 2025, Malmo was found guilty by the East London Magistrate's Court on multiple charges arising from a 2018 incident in which he discharged a firearm during a rally. The court convicted him of unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition, discharging a firearm in a built up or public area and reckless endangerment. On the 16th of April 2026, he was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment.

[00:13:41]The court further found that these acts were not only deliberate, they were planned before the event. So this was not a crime of passion. This was not a protest. He didn't go all passionate then start shooting everything. He No, he didn't do that. This was a man who deliberately brought an illegal firearm to a political rally and then fired it into the air above 20,000 human beings. And he is comparing this to Mandela's imprisonment. Are you kidding me? Malemma also claimed that Afrey Forum was were the secret masterminds behind this case. You must ask yourself who is behind this case and the answer is Afrey Forum. It is those who are behind the means of production and they don't want me to tell the truth.

[00:14:38]Afreform, his perpetual villain, his allpurpose explanation for every consequence he has ever faced. Here's a thought for you.

[00:14:51]Afrey Forum did not load that firearm. I don't remember Afrey Forum bringing it to the rally and I specifically don't remember Afrey Forum pulling the trigger in front of 20,000 people. Julius MMA still did those things. Julius Malemma was convicted for those things by a court of law after a full trial. Taking responsibility for your own actions is not something Mandela had to be taught. Mandela, unlike MMA, took responsibility for everything he did, including those acts of sabotage he was actually guilty of.

[00:15:29]He said he did those all those bombings.

[00:15:32]He said he did that and then he faced the consequences with dignity and he still got let out in the end. Malemma can't face a firearms conviction without blaming some lobby group. There's always somebody to blame. He's the reason for the many xenophobic attacks. This is not just about one bad comparison on a campaign stage. People like MMA always find something to blame. And then when the xenophobic attacks increase in the country and operation to doula comes out of nowhere, he says, "No, I was never xenophobic." Like this is the impact someone like him can have.

[00:16:07]He's telling young people the reason why he's struggling is because of a random group of white folks in every forum.

[00:16:14]What's what what do you think those young people are going to think when they get older or when they reach Malima's age? Julius Malma has constructed an entire political identity around the idea that he is some sort of prosecuted trutht teller. That every legal consequence he faces is political and they're trying to silence him. That every conviction is some conspiracy to shut him up. That every accountability moment is an attack. This is cult like.

[00:16:42]This is cult logic. This is the logic that says the leader is always right no matter what. The leader is always the victim and anyone who questions the leader is an enemy of the people. Right?

[00:16:54]If you don't like Malemma, all of a sudden you don't like black people.

[00:16:57]That's what MMA wants to make you think.

[00:16:59]Mandela built a movement that transceded its leader. It was beyond race. The ANC of Mandela's era was bigger than any one man. Malemma has built a movement that cannot exist without him. You get what I mean? The EFF without MMA is nothing but a red beret with nobody underneath it.

[00:17:21]Okay, that is not leadership. That is dependency. That is the ultimate killer to a society. And dependency is what cults like the EFF produce, not liberation movements. Nelson Mandela would be ashamed. He would be appalled by the comparison.

[00:17:41]What disrespect and South Africa should say so loudly. What disrespect. How dare you. What disrespect from MMA. What absolute hogwash. What horseradish.

[00:17:55]Another thing that was horseradish is I love the story. Okay, I genuinely love it and I barely love anything in this world of politics of ours because sometimes the most revealing thing a political party like the EFF can do is not what they say in parliament or at a rally. It's how they react when something small like a television channel tells the truth about them. What am I talking about? Well, let me spill the tea. Let me spill the tea. Here's what happened. There is a channel on DSTV called Moja Love. In Moja Love, one of the shows that play there is called Zmoa Daily. That's a show that covers South African current affairs for an audience that the mainstream media consistently ignores.

[00:18:43]That show aired an episode that examined the EFF critically. The show raised serious questions. It gave its audience information. It did what journalism is supposed to do. The EFF formally lodged a complaint with the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa, the BCCSA, against Mojal TV.

[00:19:10]The party said the program broadcast was misleading. They said it was politically biased and it was prejudicial commentary against the economic freedom fighters because the EFF is special, right? They are the victims of everything, right?

[00:19:26]And then they demanded the immediate withdrawal of the episode. They demanded a formal public apology and an opportunity to respond on the same platform. Listen to that again. A political party is so petty they they watched TV and demanded a television channel to withdraw an episode about them and issue a public apology for reporting critically about them. It's not like they were lying about them. It was the truth. This is the same party that calls itself the voice of the people. By the way, the EFF says it's the voice of the people. The same party that says it fights for freedom with their red berets running around like red ants. The same party whose leader just compared himself to Nelson Mandela while addressing youth. A man who stood for the freedom of expression that Apartate tried to destroy. That's Mandela. And Malma compared himself to that guy. And when a random TV channel exercises that freedom they talk about so much, EFF is like, "What the hey, withdraw it.

[00:20:28]Apologize. Give us airtime." Now, I'm going to be fair. The right of reply is a legitimate journalistic principle. If you're going to make serious claims about an organization, giving them a chance to respond is good practice. That could get you a lot of views. It's going to make your show a lot of money. But let's be honest about what is really happening here. The EFF is not upset about journalistic process.

[00:20:56]The EFF is so petty. They're just upset that a channel with a massive workingclass black South African audience, their core constituency, heard something unflattering about them for the first time in a while. That's why they wanted silenced, right? Just like how MMA keeps saying they're trying to silence him because Mojalav is not SABC.

[00:21:19]Mojalav is not a newspaper that EFF supporters might influence and dismiss as white-owned media. Mojalav is channel 157 on DSTV. Mojalav is one of those channels on DSTV that is watched by a majority black audience in South Africa.

[00:21:37]It is the channel of the people the EFF claims to represent. So when Zemo daily talks the aunties watch, the Malum watch, the young people in the townships are watching, right? Everybody is watching. The makrizas, the ta are watching. And the EFF cannot control what those people hear. That's what they have a problem with because that terrifies them. The EFF without propaganda is nothing. Here is what I want to say to the host and the team at Zmoa Daily on Mocha Love channel 157. I see you and South Africa should see you too. This is me saying South Africans need to watch this show more. This is genuinely a good show. I love this show.

[00:22:22]They're not afraid to tell the truth, even though they know they're going to face scrutiny the next day. You can't tell me Zocha Daily made this episode without knowing they'd be heavily criticized for it. I'm sure a lot of their audience is pro EFF. I'm sure they knew that, but they still did it. I love this show and I love the person that hosted it. So, this is me, the Summer S, telling everyone who watches my channel, my show to watch Zmoa daily. Doesn't matter who you are or where you're from.

[00:22:49]It's a great show. Watch it. Okay. It takes courage to report critically about something like the EFF in this climate.

[00:22:58]These are people who have repeatedly shown that they will come for you legally on social media in public.

[00:23:07]Choosing to air that episode knowing what the response would be. Wow. That is not just journalism. That is bravery and that is principle. They need an award for that. The EFF's complaint is actually the best possible advertisement for that episode. The EFF just made that show more famous because now everyone who hasn't seen it like me wants to know what was in it. I want to see everything. You cannot buy that kind of attention, right? And I'm telling you to go and see it as well. I'm advertising that show. They didn't pay me anything.

[00:23:43]I'm advertising them because it's genuinely a good show. But the bigger lesson here, okay, what the EFF has revealed by filing this complaint is something deeply uncomfortable about who they actually are. The EFF is nothing but a party that fights for freedom until the freedom is used against them. The EFF is a party that champions the poor until a channel that is watched by the poor says something they don't like. The EFF is a party that accuses the establishment of silencing disscent while trying to silence dissent against itself.

[00:24:26]This is the definition of hypocrisy, the EFF, and it is playing out in public in real time. Mandela's ANC fought for the freedom of the press. The post aparate constitution enshrined that freedom as a fundamental right. South Africa has a free press precisely because people died for that right during apartate. and Julius MMA and the and this EFF little squad, the party that just compared their leader to Mandela, is trying to use a complaints commission to pull a TV episode because they didn't like what it said. The irony is so thick you could cut it with a panga. Mocha Love held the line and South Africa is better for it.

[00:25:24]So, that's it from me. It's all the time we have for today. How do you like my suits these days? Huh, man? Actually, yeah. What do you think about my tie collections? I've been meaning to ask you this, by the way. What do you think of my my my little my little tie collections? You know, my You know, I've been wearing formally these days a lot.

[00:25:44]It's actually funny these days. I've been wearing formally for most of the day than when I dress casually.

[00:25:52]Most of the time when you run into me or like when I'm with family or something, they'll see me dressing formally because I might be coming from church. I might just, you know, come from doing an episode just now. And people who don't know that like it looks weird to them.

[00:26:09]They're like, "Oh, it's that guy who wears suits all the time." They don't know that. Oh, he's the host of a show and he goes to church most of the time.

[00:26:17]Okay, it makes sense. Like if you were a random person who didn't know who I was and you're seeing me this 20 yearear-old child wearing a suit most of the time, you'd think, "Huh?"

[00:26:30]I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, but it would just, you know, like why aren't you wearing what your generation wears most of the time, you know, like your your your girls, the girls of your generation like wearing the crop tops and the shorts, and the boys of your generation like wearing the the little dudacks that look like tights on their heads. and then like wearing earrings and all of that and like having tattoos.

[00:26:53]Funny how he's the guy that wears formal all the time. You know, one time I was walking through the mall and there were these two women. So, the one is actually really young and then the other one looked significantly older than she was. So, I'm thinking that was maybe the mom or the aunt. The other woman wasn't young. You could see this is a lady who was in her late 20s, mid late 20s. You could see she's working and everything. I was in the mall and I'm I walk past them and the younger lady says inana to the to the older woman. She says, "Ah, there's your favorite there's your favorite show host."

[00:27:36]And I I acted like I didn't hear that.

[00:27:39]So, I just kept walking. And then the older lady says, "Really? No, it's not him. There's no way that's him. And the young lady says, "Oh, that's definitely I know that's him. I I know those glasses. I know you watch him all the time. I I recognize those specs from anywhere." Remember, they're talking in Tana. I'm just saying this in English so that you can understand cuz some of you don't understand.

[00:28:04]So, they're busy saying this and everything.

[00:28:09]And then the older the older lady says, "Nah, I don't think it's him. He's not wearing his suits like he usually does.

[00:28:17]You know, like most of you are so used to me wearing formal. You can't envision a world where I dress informally. So when someone sees me with like maybe me wearing my my sneakers and a random hoodie and shorts, they'll go, "Oh, huh.

[00:28:33]So he wears something else besides his suits." You know what I mean? But hey, that was just another fun experience of me walking past two ladies. And then I also want to ask you guys something for the comment section.

[00:28:48]You see, the other day I was so I work from home as you know. The other day there was no electricity at my house. So I was working from a restaurant. So I found a place to plug in my laptop and everything.

[00:29:02]So I'm working on my laptop and I see this young couple. So this is around the late afternoon on that side and I see this young couple they you know they together they dining together and you could clearly see that the guy was having a really hard time using his fork and knife. Don't ask me why I was looking. It was just curious. Okay. They were literally sitting like a desk away, like a table away from me.

[00:29:37]And the girl didn't seem embarrassed by it.

[00:29:43]So my question to you, even the older, especially the older audience watching this, because you are the experienced ones, should you be embarrassed when your boyfriend or your girlfriend can't use a forking knife and you're in the restaurant? Should you be embarrassed or is it like a normal thing? Some people can, some people can't. You know, like the girl I saw, she didn't seem embarrassed at all. She was still casual, but the guy just looked Yeah, he he he actually wasn't embarrassed because he didn't know he was doing it wrong.

[00:30:19]It was that bad. So, tell me what you think in the comment section. Just a fun question to give you a break, to give your brain a break from all this political drama and all these political scandalous actions done by our own president. Tell me what you think.

[00:30:34]Should you be embarrassed by your date if they can't eat a fork and knife? I'll see you next time.