Afro-Marxist revolutionary firebrand Julius Malema told his supporters that his EFF party would confiscate all white property once it comes to power. He was speaking on the occasion of commemorating ANC-SACP terrorist Solomon Mahlangu who had killed white civilians, only to be tried and executed by the previous Afrikaner government. The event took place at the University of Pretoria University Mamelodi campus, situated in the black township by that name.

With some commentators speculating that Malema could be part of a future extreme-left government in South Africa as the media campaign against Jacob Zuma takes its toll, the “supreme commander” of the Economic Freedom Fighters warned the country’s whites that they had no reason to celebrate the apparent impopularity of the ANC and South African Communist Party.

“The white minority are clapping hands while the EFF is castigating Zuma and think we have forgotten that black people want the land back. But we haven’t. You are next.”

Floyd Shivambu, vice-president of the EFF, predicted that the radical Malema would come to power and would be “the next president of South Africa”.

Speaking to a packed hall of black supporters, with many sitting on the floor as there weren’t enough seats, Malema said to loud applause:

“We stopped Nkandla and the Guptas are gone. Now we are going to take our country back. All the pretty buildings in this country were built by blacks without payment. That belongs to us too. We are going to take the country with everything in it whether they (the whites) like it or not.

‘We cannot be friends with whites’

Malema described the white man as “the enemy”. “It is the white man who killed Solomon Mahlangu and even though we must focus on reconciliation, we cannot be friends with whites. We need to liberate the black race. No white came here with land.”

Malema emphasised that the terrorist Solomon Mahlangu was first and foremost a black nationalist figting for the black race against the white race. Relatives of Mahlangu had tried to prevent Malema from using Mahlangu’s name at his meeting, but failed.

According to Malema, when Mahlangu killed white civilians, “he was inspired by the efforts of Tsietsie Mashinini. Who is Tsietsie Mashinini? He was a member of Black Consciousness and therefore Mahlangu was Black Consciousness.

“Solomon Mahlangu was inspired by Black Consciousness which was a leading movement, as all leaders were in exile and underground. Our people looked up to Steve Biko. Solomon Mahlangu knew Black Consciousness before he knew ANC. He only knew ANC when he went outside the country.”

He also said that Zuma was not the real enemy.

“Don’t think that Zuma is our enemy. Zuma is not our enemy, it’s just that he is standing in the way, and we must remove him to get our land back,” said Malema.

“Zuma is standing between us and our enemy. Move out of the way. Zuma must pave the way because they [whites] are the one who stole our land.”

Malema wanted Mahlangu’s execution avenged by rounding up everyone involved in his trial in the late seventies.

“Why must we apologise for being slaves? They say we must reconcile with them. We want to see those who were working at the gallows hanging people. We want to see their faces. We can’t reconcile with people we don’t know.

“Where are the prosecutors who were recommending death sentences? Where are the judges who sentenced our brothers to death? They must come here, we want to see them.

“Reconciliation must never replace justice. Justice is the return of the land. We must fight for our land,” he said.

Report compiled by PRAAG after various news sources.