Ramaphosa at the launch of his party manifesto in Rustenburg on March 2, said the North West was the home of the ANC, while Malema, told EFF supporters in Lethabong that the "EFF is North West and North West is the EFF". "If you do not bring a new government on May 8 people of North West, you will have yourselves to be blamed because in North West the government of the day is rotten to the core," Malema told party members at the North West manifesto launch in Lethobong, Rustenburg on March 31. However, Ramaphosa assured ANC members that the party would win North West." We are not going to lose this province [North West], it is the home of the ANC, We are going to increase our majority. He resigned in May 2018 as the premier of North West after people called for him to vacate office in mass protests in the North West.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 08, 2019 19:08 UTC