Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Malema is a controversial and divisive figure in South African politics: he has been favourably described by both Zuma [12] and the Premier of Limpopo Province, Cassel Mathale, as the "future leader" of South Africa. [13] Detractors describe him as a "reckless populist" with the potential to destabilise South Africa and spark racial conflict. [14]
It was founded by expelled former African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) president Julius Malema, and his allies, on 26 July 2013. [16] Malema is president of the EFF, heading the Central Command Team, which serves as the central structure of the party. [17] It is currently the fourth-largest party in the National Assembly. [18]
One of the more outspoken and extreme members of the government of national unity, Julius Malema, head of the South African minority party Economic Freedom Fighters, said on X, "In light of the ...
It examines a number of issues ranging from the allegedly corrupt systematic funneling of large sums of public money from the SSA to fund the ANC, and internal ANC power battles in support of former president Zuma, to alleged links between the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Julius Malema, and suspected illicit tobacco trader ...
Black First Land First (BLF) is a political movement and political party in South Africa.It was founded in 2015 by Andile Mngxitama following his expulsion from the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), led by Julius Malema.
In 2010 Julius Malema sang a controversial apartheid struggle song "Shoot the Boer" (Boer being the Afrikaans word for "farmer"), which drew further criticism in light of the numerous killings of white farmers and black labourers across South Africa. The South African Equality Court ruled that the song motivated genocide and was thus declared ...
The song is controversial in post-apartheid South Africa, [13] where it has experienced a revival, [30] being most notably sung by then African National Congress Youth League (ANCLY) leader, later leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Julius Malema [36] and then South African President Jacob Zuma. [37]
On 12 September 2011, Julius Malema, the youth leader of South Africa's ruling ANC, was found guilty of hate speech for singing "Shoot the Boer" at a number of public events. [44] A Gauteng government official, Velaphi Khumalo, stated on Facebook "White people in South Africa deserve to be hacked and killed like Jews. [You] have the same venom.