TimesLIVE By Bulelani Nonyukela
EFF leader says if the party were in government it would expropriate farms and hand them to farm workers.
EFF leader Julius Malema has doubled down on his party’s radical stance on land reform, vowing the EFF in government would expropriate farms without compensation and hand them to farm workers.
Speaking to a cheering crowd at Sophiatown Extreme Park in Johannesburg on Sunday, Malema said land must be returned to the people who work it.
“When the EFF goes into government we will expropriate farms and give them to the farm workers because no white man works the farm,” he said.
“It is black people who are driving tractors, harvesting and know how to work the land. We require no white supervision. Let the farms be returned to the farm workers.”
Listen to Malema:
Malema’s comments come while he has been expressing the EFF’s readiness to enter the government of national unity, but only if the ANC removes the DA from the coalition.
He said the fight for land remains at the heart of the EFF’s mission.
“The EFF is at the centre of championing the struggle for the return of the land. We must never sleep in the duty. They wish we can forget the issue of land. We will never forget because this land belongs to us.”
Malema invoked the memory of South Africa’s resistance heroes in his message…
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