U.S. pressures South Africa to imprison popular politician & land reformer

 

Julius Malema, the leader of South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters, was sentenced to five years in prison for simply firing a rifle into the air.

Malema and his party have previously been frequent targets of the Trump Administration and billionaires like Elon Musk because he was a major advocate of land reform inside the country.  He had previously also drawn ire from the US and Europe due to his support for Palestinian freedom from Israeli occupation, Russian efforts to denazify Ukraine and prevent NATO expansion, and China’s territorial integrity regarding Taiwan province.

One of the EFF’s key political goals is dismantling the economic structures of apartheid that dominate South African society long after the 1994 abolition of racial segregation and political disenfranchisement.

Back during the apartheid era, Elon Musk’s father Errol was a major property developer and landowner so Elon and Trump have falsely accused the EFF and even the South African state of trying to carry out genocide against the white population.

This of course is despite the fact that whites make up only seven percent but own as much as seventy to eighty percent of the wealth, land, and industrial and agricultural output through British corporations through the De Beers Group, Anglo-American plc, Mondi Group and Associated British Foods.

The Afrikaners became the greatest beneficiaries of this new post-apartheid democracy because the economic sanctions that came as a result of the Soweto massacre were lifted and they were no longer considered international pariahs.

After the dissolution of the apartheid state, Nelson Mandela was only allowed to become President as long as the economic structures of apartheid were not touched and as a result, South Africa became a debt colony for the World Bank.  And none of the demands of the African revolutionaries, including those of Mandela himself prior to his imprisonment, were met.

Furthermore, those from the apartheid regime guilty of crimes against humanity were never punished.  The officers of the South African security police who kidnapped and murdered African children in the Soweto massacre in 1976 were promised that they wouldn’t face legal accountability so long as they confessed and testified before Nelson Mandela’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Mandela was ultimately released from prison and allowed to become President, after the CIA had been responsible for his 1962 capture, only if he submitted to American imperialism.  And a major reason was Julius Malema was targeted is because he was what Nelson Mandela used to be before his release from prison. 

And it’s almost a certainty that Malema’s imprisonment was a result of the pressure campaigns of Elon Musk and the Trump Administration and their ridiculous theatric acting as the victim when they’re not.