Last night Julius Malema leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters
(EFF) remarked about how Zimbabweans are “better off” than their South
African Counterparts. While addressing thousands of people in Limpopo
Malema praised the way his mentor Robert Mugabe seized the land from
white farmers. Malema admitted that although the economy was left in
tatters, the people of Zimbabwe are free and potentially in a stronger
position.
What Malema is doing is describing his hatred of white farmers. Last
year during September 2015 Malema delivered a speech at a press club in
Cape Town and sharply criticized the past attempts and failures of the
African National Congress (ANC) on land reform.
At this meeting, Malema recited the song about how white people stole
the land and said no compensation would be forthcoming. Malema told his
audience that the White people did not pay for the land but committed
black genocide and that the black people who survived the onslaught were
transformed into slaves. Malema again told the white people to hand
over the land.
In November last year The Pan-Africanists and Black Consciousness
movement slated Malema and the ANC as selling out their people. In a
statement, this group said Malema openly engaged leaders of the white
agricultural sector in the Western Cape and had assured the whites that
their interests in the land would be secured and intact.
At another meeting held at Oxford University, Malema referred to the
Freedom Charter as the bible of the South African revolution and that
there would be no deviation from that. At that meeting, Malema openly
rejected the revolutionary process of land reform in Zimbabwe.
Since Malema is hoping to achieve a resounding success in the
upcoming local elections to be held on August 3, his speeches are
lacking consistency. By proclaiming the manner in which Zimbabwe seized
the land is setting the stage for anarchy and inciting violence against
South African Farmers.
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