The Democratic Alliance (DA) on Friday called on voters to prevent what it termed an African National Congress-Economic Freedom Fighters-uMkhonto weSizwe Party (ANC-EFF-MKP) Doomsday Coalition, by voting for the DA.

Last year during the party’s Federal Congress, DA leader John Steenhuisen warned that the ANC, EFF and their proxies in small parties such as the Patriotic Alliance, were converging towards forming a “doomsday coalition” after the 2024 general election.

Steenhuisen noted on Thursday EFF leader Julius Malema said in an interview that he would “give the EFF vote to the ANC” if the party did not reach 50% of electoral support, on the condition that his deputy Floyd Shivambu becomes Minister of Finance.

“Malema added that this is because ‘you need a radical’ to take control of South Africa’s purse strings. This morning, the EFF’s secretary-general, Marshall Dlamini, added that land expropriation without compensation and the nationalisation of mines would form some of the ‘cardinal pillars’ of its planned Doomsday Coalition with the ANC,” Steenhuisen stated.

He said with these comments, the EFF leadership had, for the first time, publicly confirmed that the DA had been right all along.

“Malema’s confirmation that the Doomsday Coalition we foresaw is now taking shape, only serves to galvanise the DA’s determination to succeed. The single best way to avert, oppose and combat the Doomsday Coalition, is to vote for the DA,” he said.

Steenhuisen said an “EFF doomsday” would make the collapse of Zimbabwe “look like a dress-rehearsal”, and said it would leave all South Africans destitute.

He warned that the “EFF doomsday coalition” would expropriate property without compensation and abolish private property rights, and would nationalise and destroy foreign investment, businesses, banks and mines.

The “EFF doomsday coalition” would plunge this country into ethnic and racial conflict the likes of which it had never witnessed before, claimed Steenhuisen.