Posted on 04/30/2016 6:50:46 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The leader of South Africa's opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party has launched his party's campaign for the upcoming local elections, promising to rescue citizens from poverty, unemployment and corrupt government.
Around 40,000 people turned up at Orlando Stadium in Soweto on Saturday displaying massive support for fiery EFF leader Julius Malema's promises to seize white-owned land without compensation and nationalise the banks.
The huge turnout was a shot across the bows of the ANC, which failed to fill a similar stadium during the launch of its own manifesto in the coastal city of East London two weeks ago.
"We are not chasing the whites away. We are saying you have too much land. We want you here in South Africa, but 80 percent of the land belongs to us," Malema told the crowd.
The white minority still holds the vast majority of farmland as well as a disproportionate share of the country's wealth.
The EFF is capitalising on black discontent over the perceived lack of change under the ANC government since the end of apartheid 22 years ago.
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Bless you SisterK. Your plight is not far from us here in America either. Most Americans just don’t want to see the handwriting on the wall. My premise is that even being a pauper by one’s own design is better than having your possessions wrested from you by scum rakers. I will gladly take that path if it comes to that here.
In that scenario, the Whites would win because many of them had military experience under Apartheid Regime back in the '80s and early '90s.
Since white people created that wealth their possession of it is not “disproportionate”.
I don’t think you are dumb. I would have a hard time leaving home too. I hope for the best for you.
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