Is Juju driving EFF to MK?

On the eve of the EFF's commander-in-chief Julius Malema's exit from his then beloved ANC, his late grandmother, Sarah Malema, called him to berate him because he had made Jacob Zuma angry.

- Sydney Majoko

Fiona Forde, in her book, Still An Inconvenient Youth, says his grandmother told him he was the first person to make the country's president so angry that he had to give him a tongue-lashing on national television.

She says his grandmother was his barometer, a measure of "...the feeling of the last ordinary people and how they feel about what you do."

The past three months must have felt as though he was especially unanchored, what with his closest friend and confidante, Floyd Shivambu, leaving him for Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto we Sizwe Party (MK).

His other barometer, besides his beloved grandmother, had just abandoned him and their pet project for the party of the man who once branded Malema's utterances whilst he was still in the ANC an "alien to the movement".

Shivambu was notably followed by advocate Dali Mpofu out the now permanently open door that leads directly to MK.