Johannesburg – Botswana’s refusal to grant EFF leader Julius Malema a visa showed that its President Ian Khama was a dictator, the party said on Friday.
“The Economic Freedom Fighters condemns the refusal by the autocratic military government of Botswana to grant the CIC [commander in chief] Julius Malema a visa,” its national spokesperson Mbuyiseni Quintin Ndlozi said in a statement.
“There are absolutely no grounds for a so-called democratic country to refuse a person a visa merely on the basis that he holds a different political view to that of the government.”
Malema’s expulsion from the African National Congress in 2012 was partly because he threatened to bring about regime change in Botswana.
Malema said in July 2011 that there was a vacuum in the ideological and political leadership of Africa and the sub-regions, the Sunday Times reported at the time.
He reportedly said the ANC Youth League intended establishing a Botswana command team, which would work towards uniting all oppositional forces in Botswana “to oppose the puppet regime of Botswana, led by the Botswana Democratic Party”…
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