The President of Operation Dudula, Zandile Dabula, has opened a case against the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in Gauteng.

This after the EFF, last week, said it had opened a case against the movement and its leader following the death of a one-year-old child at the Alexandra Community Health Care Centre, in July.

According to the EFF, the mother of the child, a Malawian national, was denied access to the clinic as she could not produce a South African ID. Subsequent to that, the child allegedly died.

Dabula has accused the party of lying to the public about the incident as well as opening a case against her and the movement.

“I’ve opened a case of intimidation, assault by threats and criminal defamation as per the Cybercrime Act because they went out there and labelled me as a murderer and lied to the community that they had opened a case against myself and Operation Dudula when they knew that’s not true,” says Dabula.

President Zandile Dabula has opened a case against EFF and EFF members.

Case registered on 2025-09-27 at ALEXANDRA Station. contact details: 011-3217600. pic.twitter.com/y00Wlz4CKV

— Operation Dudula (@0perationDudula) September 27, 2025

She says when they got to the station, it was confirmed that the EFF was turned away because they wouldn’t have been the right people to open a case against her for murder.

“There was no proof,” she adds.