Malema blasts AfriForum: ‘America will make them hobos’
EFF leader Julius Malema accuses AfriForum of spreading false claims to the US about white people being killed in South Africa.
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has challenged why AfriForum’s leader has not yet taken up Donald Trump’s refugee program in the United States.
Trump extended refugee status to white Afrikaner farmers, accusing the South African government of minority discrimination, particularly against Afrikaners. Last week, 49 Afrikaners arrived in the US under this program.
Speaking to a crowd in Pretoria on Monday, Malema stated that most white South Africans were not willing to accept “Trump’s offer” because they were living “comfortably”.
Julius Malema attacks AfriForum
“We must not be intimidated by this thing that says we are killing white people. There is no white person who is being killed in South Africa. If you go and look at the stats, it’s white people killing each other for policy inheritance. They kill each other and blame it on us,” he said.
Malema said that AfriForum had peddled lies to the US that white people were killed in South Africa. The EFF leader called out the lobby group’s leader Kallie Kriel (AfriForum CEO), Gerrie Nel (AfriForum’s Private Prosecution) and Ernst Roets (former AfriForum deputy CEO).
“Why is Kriel not going to America? Because he is the one who said people are being killed. Kriel must lead by example and go to America. Roets must lead by example and go to America. Gerrie Nel must lead by example and go to America. They can’t go because they live a good life here in South Africa, because when they go to America, they are going to become hobos with immediate effect,” Malema said.
Earlier this month, AfriForum applauded the UK’s decision to deny Malema a visa and called on the international community to impose further sanctions on him. The EFF was scheduled to speak at the Cambridge Conference but his visa was denied.