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Julius Malema, President of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), has recently made headlines.
This comes after threatening the “mother of all protests,” which he claims will bring South Africa to a halt on March 20 as the opposition pressures the government to end load shedding.
Malema posted a video message on the party’s social media accounts earlier this week, calling on everyone who is unemployed, concerned about load shedding, crime, corruption, and gender-based violence to join the shutdown to show their fatigue.
Addressing the media on Wednesday on their plans as a political party for the national shutdown on Monday, he made an example of how load shedding has affected businesses, including KFC.
“Small businesses have closed because they don’t have electricity. Let’s take KFC for instance – I don’t eat KFC, it smells badly, so don’t think I eat KFC because I talk about it – they have generators outside but when it’s load-shedding they don’t switch on the generators they close the doors, Malema said.
Mara Julius Malema is beefing with KFC. Guys what’s wrong with KFC smell? 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/szNTe5PGv4
— m a s h è s h a 💨 (@_mashesha) March 17, 2023
Within minutes, his statement reached the Twitter streets, with people sharing jokes and memes about what he said.
Here are some of the reactions:
Julius Malema "I don't eat KFC. It smells bad. "
Hahaha
Quick … @NandosSA, where is your clever response? 😀 pic.twitter.com/IRu4U9CCIl
— Eusebius McKaiser (@Eusebius) March 15, 2023
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Late last year KFC South Africa announced that some of its restaurants would be temporarily closed due to the ongoing load shedding.
Taking to social media, they wrote: “We are sorry, but due to the ongoing load shedding, some of our restaurants will be temporarily closed, while others may have limited availability on some of your favourite menu items. We apologise for the inconvenience and will be back soon.”
The restaurant said load shedding is impacting the supply of some of their restaurants and menu items and that they are working hard to sort out all the constraints with their suppliers.
The news did not sit well with chicken lovers, as many commented, asking the restaurant chain if they could not make alternatives. Some foodies even went as far as giving the restaurant ideas on what they could do.