With World Cup legend Lionel Messi the man existing apart from everything else, many fans and followers are accused of attempting to take his sparkle – including South African politicians Fikile Mbalula and Julius Malema.

 
The EFF and ANC agents seemed to take advantage of the Argentina captains’ notable success by advancing their own plan. In a pic posted on his Twitter account, EFF leader Julius Malema posted an image of him taken with Lionel Messi.

The last option a piece of the tweet was obviously a dig at SA president Cyril Ramaphosa whose responsibility for cows has been a bone of dispute inside the ANC. Malema’s pic with the Argentine captain was taken in 2018 when Messi – then with Barcelona – played a cordial match against Mamelodi Sundowns in South Africa. The recently chosen secretary-general and former