Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema says that rich white men influenced former president Nelson Mandela to deviate from the Freedom Charter – and that black billionaires ‘sold their black skin’ to attain wealth.<\/p>\n
Malema was addressing students at Oxford University on 25 November, where he said that deviating from the Freedom Charter under Mandela was “the beginning of selling out of the revolution”.<\/p>\n
He was quoted by Business Day<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0as saying that after Mandela was released, he was “looked after” by the billionaire Oppenheimer family, and attended club meetings by white men who “owned the economy”.<\/p>\n “They told him (Mandela) what he represented would not be achieved – that’s when he turned against himself,” said Malema.<\/p>\n Malema said that the EFF wants to do away with BEE, and rather empower workers.<\/p>\n He said its policies would see workers own shares in the companies they work for.<\/p>\n “Don’t give it to individuals, give to more people, the people who are called workers.”<\/p>\n He criticised deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa and mining executive Patrice Motsepe for being billionaires, even though they “didn’t invent anything”.<\/p>\n “He (Motsepe) just went to sell his skin. \u2018I\u2019m black, I\u2019ve got political connections, I\u2019ll protect your company give me shares.\u2019 Just like Cyril did,” said Malema.<\/p>\n By redistributing wealth to workers, Malema believes this would increase buying power, increase demand, double production, and create jobs.<\/p>\n He said industrial action would be done away with, if workers knew their dividends and returns would be based on their productivity.<\/p>\n Malema said his party would continue fighting to return land to African hands – but said they would not follow the route of Zimbabwe which engaged in violent expropriation of land from white farmers.<\/p>\n He also rejected any form of coalition government with the ANC.<\/p>\n “We will never do that. We want to destroy the ANC arrogance,” he said.<\/p>\n We will shut \u2018racist\u2019 Absa down: Malema<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Whites \u2013 you have been warned: Malema<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n We will destroy e-tolls physically: Malema<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nBlack billionaire sell-outs<\/h3>\n
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