The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader was addressing students at the University of Oxford Wednesday. He said the EFF would continue the fight for the return of land back to black Africans and the equitable sharing of South Africa’s mineral wealth.
However, he said Mugabe’s bloody land grab method, which saw thousands of white farmers and their black workers violently driven out of their properties was not at all exemplary.
“We are not going to do what the Zimbabweans have done; drawing the blood of innocent people. There’s nothing wrong with Mugabe’s policy on land, but there’s everything wrong with the method used to obtain the land. We can not have people killed, injured simply because we want land back.”
Mugabe had more than 25 years to pass legislation through democratic means that would systematically take the land back, but he decided to sit on the job and enjoy the gains of the good economy he had inherited from the Ian Smiths regime. He only introduced the policy at at time when he was now losing power, it was OPPORTUNISTIC!
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Malema’s comments come at time when Harare sees him as a close ally. Mugabe’s loyalists like former indegenization and current local government minister Saviour Kasukuwere see Malema as a personal comrade.
During Malema’s last visit to Zimbabwe, he expressed his support for Mugabe and was shown wearing a Zanu PF shirt emblazoned with Mugabe’s image.
At Oxford, the EFF leader also fell short of describing the first SA black president Nelson Mandela as a “sell out” who was unable to complete the revolution because he was “too old” and “tired”.
“The deviation from the Freedom Charter was the beginning of selling out of the revolution. When Mandela returned from prison he got separated from Winnie Mandela and went to stay in a house of a rich white man, he was looked after by the Oppenheimers, Mandela used to attend the club meetings of those white men who owned the South African economy.
He stayed in one of their houses, they had access to him 24 hours. They told him what he represented would not be achieved, that’s when he turned against himself.
The Nelson Mandela we celebrate now is a stage-managed Mandela who compromised the principles of the revolution, which are captured in the Freedom Charter.
The Freedom Charter is the bible of the South African revolution. Any deviation from that is a sell-out position. We normally don’t use phrases like Mandela sold out, he was too old, he was tired, he left it to us.
We have to pick it up from where he left it. That’s why he said the struggle is not over, political freedom is incomplete without economic freedom. I will say Nelson took us to a point and left it to us to take it further”
Malema added: ” We are not going to compromise like Madiba did, perhaps it was necessary to have a cooling-off period, but we cooled off for too long – 21 years. Now is the time. It is possible, it is going to happen. Universities are even beginning to listen, those are the most stubborn institutions, they are being made to listen.”
For billionaires Patrice Motsepe and Cyril Ramaphosa (SA Vice President) Malema had utter contempt. The two, he said, “sold their black skin” to become rich.
He said despite Motsepe and Ramaphosa being billionaires they had not invented anything, unlike that young man who invented Facebook.
