* Editor’s note: This event will be broadcast live on eNCA.com and is expected to start at 1pm.

DURBAN – The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) will celebrate its fourth anniversary with a rally at Curries Fountain in Durban on Saturday.

Party leader, Julius Malema has dubbed the event ‘the festival of the poor’.

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The sometimes controversial party was founded in 2013, and since then a number of members have left the party.

One such member is Black First Land First leader Andile Mnxgitama, who was expelled in 2014.

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The party was officially launched in Marikana a year after the massacre at the Lonmin mine.

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