Firebrand Malema fights for land revolution in S. Africa The leader of South Africa's radical opposition EFF party has vowed that his supporters will increasingly seize unoccupied land to put pressure on the government to redistribute land to black people. Julius Malema, head of the anti-capitalist Economic Freedom Fighters party, warned that poor, young South Africans felt abandoned by the country's post-apartheid politics since the end of white-minority rule in 1994. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES