Addressing economic privilege first step towards equality: Malema

Addressing economic privilege first step towards equality: Malema

EFF leader, Julius Malema says the status quo of economic inequality is a recipe for revolution.

Julius Malema in Laastehoop_jacanews
Photo: Maidi Monareng, JacarandaFM News


Speaking at the Rand Merchant Bank's Macro Forum in Johannesburg today, Malema said white people needed to acknowledge their economic privilege first.

"White South Africans are economically superior to black South Africans. The whites gained this through colonial apartheid in inhumane and illegal means. Failure to accept this basic reality is at the centre of our problem," he said.    

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Malema says the economy can't still largely be in the control of white South Africans.


Video:  Maryke Vermaak

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