“Julius Malema has an obsession with money and the good life”- Kenny Kunene

Last year, Kunene appeared alongside the EFF’s suspended Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Wiekus Kotze, claiming that the party’s money was being used to finance the leaders’ expensive lifestyles. Kunene also warned of South Africa descending into a dictatorship with Malema at the helm, and sais EFF’s campaigns are meant to cause anarchy. So yesterday, Kenny Kunene revealed his true reasons for leaving the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and how his relationship with once close friends, party leader Julius Malema failed.

Kunene says he considers himself a literal founding member of the party and Kotze says the businessman has been helping him expose irregular financial management. Kunene had some strong words to say about the media, saying there was no investigation in the country.

“Julius would say to us ‘don’t worry about the media, I tell them what to do’,” said Kunene. He said Malema called a media briefing “gossiping” about him and his business partner Gayton McKenzie.

“None of you walked out of that meeting having raised critical issues with him,” said Kunene. “But I got calls from journalists pretending to be from Sars asking me stupid questions about whether I owe Sars.”

“If Julius Malema takes over this country, which is a possibility, you will not have any of these jobs.” “Under Zuma you can draw his private parts and you can insult him and yet you can still operate as a media house.

“Under Julius you cannot even say one negative statement. He will close the media house and arrest the journalist.” Kunene said if Malema became the president or deputy president he would pack up and go somewhere else.

“He has an obsession with money and the good life. “He has no regard for the future or stability of this country.”