Yes – you guessed it – these “wise words” comes from South Africa’s expelled ANC Youth League president Julius Malema. He was visiting Zim to attend a wedding when he said South Africa has a lot to learn from its neighbouring state.
The Herald online is quoted as saying Malema he came to Zimbabwe to come and gain strength and inspiration from the country’s achievements.
“Don’t listen to imperialist newspapers. You have achieved a lot. You are running your own country, you have been managing your own affairs and you are not controlled by foreigners. That is what we need in South Africa. So we came here just to seek an inspiration and wisdom so that when we go home, we can double the spirit of fighting against imperialist forces,” the fat boy said.
Malema said the African struggle was not ambiguous as it had clear, set goals. “Our struggle is a defined struggle. We are not a lost generation. We are asking what belongs to us. We are not asking for any favour neither are we victimising anybody.”
He said he is calling for whites to surrender land and mines because when the whites “came from Europe they did not carry any land into South Africa. What we are asking is for them to surrender our minerals because they did not come with any mineral. We want that land and those minerals for free because they never paid for those minerals.
“Actually they killed people to get that land and those minerals. We are not going to give them money when we take the land back because it will be like we are thanking them with money for killing our people. We will never do that, little did they know that we are not scared of blood. We are scared of defeat. We don’t want to be defeated but seeing blood is not what we are scared of as long as that blood delivers what belongs to us we are prepared to go to that extent. Because it cannot be generations before us, which has failed to deliver what rightfully belongs to us and we equally fail the future generation. We want to be remembered as a generation of economic freedom fighters.”
According to Malema his generation wants to be remembered as the one that delivered land and mineral resources to the indigenous people.
