Economic Freedom Fighters
Far-left political party in South Africa
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| February 2025 | Mbuyiseni Ndlozi resigns as National Spokesperson. |
| February 2025 | EFFSC is officially disbanded and replaced with a newly formed youth command. |
| 2024 | EFF continued their provincial election participation, maintaining strong representation in several provinces including 10.14% in Eastern Cape (8/63 seats), 14.12% in Limpopo (9/49 seats), and 17.37% in North-West (7/33 seats). |
| December 2024 | Party elective conference passes a resolution to disband the EFFSC and form a new youth command. |
| November 2024 | Dali Mpofu defects from EFF to the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party. |
| October 2024 | Busisiwe Mkhwebane defects from EFF to the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party. |
| August 2024 | Floyd Shivambu and Mzwanele Manyi defect from EFF to the newly formed uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party. |
| August 2024 | EFF deputy president Floyd Shivambu left the party and joined Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party. |
| August 2024 | Floyd Shivambu joined Jacob Zuma's UMkhonto weSizwe political party. |
| August 19 2024 | EFF leader Julius Malema announces Sinawo Tambo will replace Floyd Shivambu in parliament during a party supporter meeting in Soweto. |
| July 2024 | Former VBS chairman Tshifhiwa Matodzi was sentenced to 15 years in prison, leading to demands from the Democratic Alliance and ActionSA for a fresh investigation into Malema and Shivambu. |
| June 2024 | The EFF refused to join the ANC-led Government of National Unity due to the participation of the Democratic Alliance (DA) and Freedom Front Plus (FF+). |
| 2023 | The EFF invited Patrick Lumumba to deliver their 10th anniversary lecture at the University of Cape Town, which resulted in criticism from the South African LGBT+ community due to Lumumba's previous homophobic statements and support for Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill. |
| 2023 | During the Israel-Hamas war, EFF leader Julius Malema publicly declared the party's support for Hamas and promised to send arms to the organization if elected in 2024. |
| 2023 | The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) led a protest outside the Ugandan embassy in South Africa, urging Uganda's president not to sign the Anti-Homosexuality Bill into law. |
| December 2023 | Former ANC member and Areta leader Carl Niehaus joins the EFF. |
| March 2023 | The party attempted to organize a national shutdown protesting loadshedding and calling for President Cyril Ramaphosa to step down, which was widely reported as ineffective. |
| 2022 | The EFF picketed and barricaded the French embassy in Pretoria, criticizing France's presence in Africa. |
| 2022 | The EFF officially supported Russia's invasion of Ukraine, praising it as an 'anti-imperialist programme' against NATO. |
| October 2022 | Malema gave a speech to Western Cape EFF branch members stating that party members should 'never be scared to kill', which the South African Human Rights Commission ruled constituted hate speech. |
| June 2021 | Floyd Shivambu's brother repaid R4.55 million and admitted to taking VBS money, which was used to purchase Shivambu's Range Rover Sport. |
| January 2020 | The EFF was forced to publicly apologize and pay damages after a Gauteng High Court judgment found they had spread false allegations about journalists Thandeka Gqubule and Anton Harber. |
| 2019 | Julius Malema reversed his previous stance on the death penalty, moving away from his earlier call for a referendum. |
| 2019 | President Cyril Ramaphosa accused the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) of being an 'MI6 project' during a parliamentary debate, alleging foreign intelligence agency involvement with the party. |
| 2019 | Dali Mpofu, the EFF chairperson who stated he would shut down the party if the MI6 claims were true, was removed from his chairman position in the same year. |
| 2019 | EFF significantly increased their provincial election performance, with notable gains such as 7.84% in Eastern Cape (5/63 seats), 14.69% in Gauteng (11/73 seats), and 14.43% in Limpopo (7/49 seats). |
| 2019 | EFF MP Marshall Dlamini physically assaulted a member of the presidential security team following the State of the Nation address. |
| October 2019 | Media reports alleged that the EFF received R4 million of VBS funds through Santaclara Trading, channeled to Julius Malema. |
| May 2019 | The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) was found guilty of defamation of character by the South Gauteng High Court, ordered to pay R500,000 in damages to former Finance Minister Trevor Manuel over allegations of nepotism in the appointment of Edward Kieswetter as SARS commissioner. |
| April 2019 | Former EFF central command member Thembinkosi Rawula accused senior party leaders of dictatorial leadership practices. The EFF denied the accusations and threatened legal action for defamation. |
| 2018 | The EFF was the only parliamentary party to oppose the political party funding bill, which requires political parties to publish their sources of funding. |
| 2018 | Malema stated that a 'majority of Indians are racist' at an EFF Youth Day rally, leading to a court case initiated by the South African Minority Rights Equality Movement. |
| 2018 | Gareth van Onselen, a former Democratic Alliance member, publicly accused the EFF of being a 'fascist' party due to its legacy of racial prejudice. |
| 2018 | Floyd Shivambu was filmed and charged with assaulting Netwerk24 journalist Adrian de Kock in Parliament. |
| 2018 | Malema told supporters to 'go after a white man' in reference to Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Athol Trollip, saying 'we are cutting the throat of whiteness'. |
| December 2018 | Journalist Ranjeni Munusamy lodged an affidavit detailing threatening remarks, intimidation, harassment, and personal attacks by party members, including Malema, towards journalists. |
| October 2018 | Vodacom store in Polokwane was damaged and looted by EFF members after a Corruption Watch presentation depicting EFF leaders Malema and Shivambu as 'abusers of Democracy'. |
| October 2018 | Seventeen former EFF members and councillors in the Northern Cape accused the party's senior leadership of corruption and sexual exploitation of female party members. |
| March 2018 | VBS Mutual Bank was placed under curatorship, sparking controversy involving the EFF leadership. |
| February 27 2018 | The EFF tabled a motion in the National Assembly to amend the Constitution to allow land expropriation without compensation, which was adopted with 241 votes in support. |
| 2016 | After the local elections, Malema suggested the EFF would back the Democratic Alliance in hung-metro areas, while maintaining they would not form a coalition with any political party. |
| 2016 | South Africa's Independent Electoral Commission disqualified EFF councillor Thabo Mabotja from local elections due to a tweet calling for the killing of white South Africans. |
| 2016 | Julius Malema made a controversial statement at a political rally, saying 'We are not calling for the slaughter of white people, at least for now'. |
| June 2016 | A group called 'Anonymous Africa' conducted a DDoS attack on the EFF's website, condemning the party's nationalist socialist rhetoric. |
| February 9 2016 | The Constitutional Court heard the '#PayBackTheMoney' case, with Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng ruling that President Jacob Zuma had violated the Constitution. |
| November 2015 | Julius Malema delivered an address at the Oxford Union, criticizing billionaire mining company owner Patrice Motsepe and speaking out against black business owners in the mining sector. |
| August 6 2015 | The EFF announced securing a Constitutional Court case for its '#PayBackTheMoney' campaign against Jacob Zuma. |
| June 16 2015 | Economic Freedom Fighters Students Command (EFFSC) is founded as the party's student wing. |
| 2014 | Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) first participated in provincial elections, achieving notable results across multiple provinces including 3.48% in Eastern Cape (2/63 seats), 8.15% in Free State (2/30 seats), 10.30% in Gauteng (8/73 seats), and 10.74% in Limpopo (6/49 seats). |
| 2013 | Julius Malema, the party leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), called for a referendum on re-introducing the death penalty during the party's launch. |
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