South Africa – Quite remarkably this sentiment, not only expressed by yours truly, was disseminated by current African National Congress Secretary-General Gwede Mantashe -who called the Economic Freedom Fighters (EEF) Leader, Julius Malema, a “monster” and “Hitler in the making”.
Secretary Mantashe was the key note speaker at a Mandela Legacy memorial conference held in Pretoria this Wednesday night, where hi discussed Julius Malema’s worrying meteoric rise in South African politics.
During the conference Mantashe commented how he felt ‘concern’ that if Malema gained power, “minority blood would spill”, and that even if the result of the hatred filled rhetoric was the death of tens of thousands of whites, ‘Malema would condone it.’
He also likened Julius Malema with his populist tactics, to that of the universally reviled German National Socialist party leader Adolph Hitler.
We aren’t so sure about the Hitler reference, as Hitler improved his nations economy, put millions to work, developed the first social security programs and set of animal rights regulations the world had ever seen! The people he ‘persecuted’ were seen as enemies of the state, NOT the creators of the state, as they are in South Africa, but still, based on people’s perception of Hitler, Mantashe’s words should come as a warning to South Africa’s non-Black population…
photo credit: Sokwanele – Zimbabwe via photopin cc
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