[Blue House Sue]

Malema is a nobody in South Africa as his EFF holds only 25 of the 400 seats in South Africa's Parliament

[Yardstick]

Malema is obviously far from a nobody. He is the Bernie Sanders of SA politics. The EFF is small but has big influence because it represents the ideological heart of the ANC. The expropriation of land without compensation was one of the EFF’s planks and was taken up by the ANC, for instance.