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Supporters of EFF leader Julius Malema want controversial MP Marshall Dlamini to replace Godrich Gardee as the party's secretary-general. This is according to several sources in the EFF who this week indicated that those close to Malema have begun lobbying for Dlamini to be elected as the new secretary-general at the party's national congress in December.
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