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Lifestyle

Malema slams ‘drama’ around Afrikaner migration to U.S: ‘It’s fiction’

Maravi Post Reporter

In a recent interview with local dailies, the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Julius Malema vehemently denied claims of widespread violence towards the white farmers who are majorly the Afrikaners.

Malema termed the reports as “fiction” and “drama” as he also took a direct jab at the recent move by the United States to resettle 49 Afrikaners, refuting the stories as fake, calling them part of a larger media fabrication.

“There’s no one who has been killed here in South Africa. It’s not true,” Malema declared. “There are no 49 Afrikaners who have left South Africa. You all know that it’s fiction, it’s drama. America, when it comes to drama, is number one.”

President Donald Trump had initially told reporters that he’s admitting them as refugees because of the “genocide that’s taking place.” He said that in post-apartheid South Africa, white farmers are “being killed,” and he plans to address the issue with South African leadership next week.

That characterization has been strongly disputed by South Africa’s government, experts and even the Afrikaner group AfriForum, which says farm attacks are not being taken seriously by the government.

South Africa’s government says the U.S. allegations that the white minority Afrikaners are being persecuted are “completely false,” the result of misinformation and an inaccurate view of the country. It cited the fact that Afrikaners are among the richest and most successful people in the country.

Malema, on the other hand, denied media reports that the farmers were being attacked and if indeed they had moved to the United States, their land should be expropriated.

“If those people were farmers, it would mean there are 49 farms available,” Malema argued. “Why are we not expropriating them because they have abandoned them? But why is the media not telling us this? Why doesn’t the media, through its own investigation, tell us who the real farmers are?”

The EFF leader further called upon the International bodies including the United States warning them against using land issues to silence South Africans who are advocating for justice and equality.

“If those people were farmers, it would mean there are 49 farms available,” Malema argued. “Why are we not expropriating them because they have abandoned them? But why is the media not telling us this? Why doesn’t the media, through its own investigation, tell us who the real farmers are?”

The firebrand politician, who was expelled from South Africa’s then-ruling African National Congress party in 2012, has been calling for land reforms, a move that has attracted strong criticism from various bodies and foreign countries.

Source: Africanews

Lifestyle

US admits White South African refugees amid controversy

Maravi Post Reporter

The Trump administration on Monday welcomed a small group of white South Africans as refugees, saying they face discrimination and violence at home, which the country’s government strongly denies. The decision to admit the 49 people also has raised questions from refugee advocates about why the group should be admitted when the Trump administration has suspended efforts to resettle people who are fleeing war and persecution and have gone through years of vetting before coming to the United States.

The group from South Africa, including children holding small American flags, arrived at Dulles International Airport outside Washington on a private charter plane and was greeted by Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau and Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar. “I want you all to know that you are really welcome here and that we respect what you have had to deal with these last few years,” Landau told the group in a hangar at the airport, many of them holding U.S. flags.

“We respect the long tradition of your people and what you have accomplished over the years.” President Donald Trump told reporters earlier Monday that he’s admitting them as refugees because of the “genocide that’s taking place.” He said that in post-apartheid South Africa, white farmers are “being killed” and he plans to address the issue with South African leadership next week.

That characterization is strongly denied by the South African government and has been disputed by experts in the country and even an Afrikaner group. South Africa’s government says the U.S. allegations that the white minority Afrikaners are being persecuted are “completely false,” the result of misinformation and an inaccurate view of its country.

It cited the fact that Afrikaners are among the richest and most successful people in the country and said they are among “the most economically privileged.” Afrikaners make up South Africa’s largest white group and were the leaders of the apartheid government, which brutally enforced racial segregation for nearly 50 years before ending it in 1994. While South Africa has been largely successful in reconciling its many races after apartheid ended, tensions between some Black political parties and some Afrikaner groups have remained. Trump has promoted the allegation that white farmers in South Africa are being killed on a large scale because of their race as far back as 2018 during his first term.

Conservative commentators have promoted the allegation about a genocide against white farmers in South Africa, and South African-born Trump ally Elon Musk has posted on social media that some politicians in the country are “actively promoting white genocide.”

Source: Africanews

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Opinion

Realities in Malawi forced Kamuzu Banda to deal with apartheid South Africa

Maravi Post Reporter
helping The African National Congress (ANC)
Xenophobic harassment and violence against African and Asian foreigners living in South Africa are routine and sometimes lethal

Opinion by Chatinkha Chidzanja Nkhoma

The realities of life are not as straight forward as we wish them to be. Hasting Kamuzu Banda Former President of Malawi had his own reasons for having dealing with Apartheid South Africa.

Former South African President Nelson Mandela himself once responded to a question about his relationship with Cuba’s Fidel Castro, “don’t try to make your enemies our enemies”. One has to understand the global political circumstances of that time.

Kamuzu Banda: Died in 1997

Fast forward, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe paid an extremely high cost helping The African National Congress (ANC)  and other black South Africans liberation movements get where they are TODAY. Most of liberation fighters were hosted in these countries. Today people from these countries are being burnt alive, beaten senseless and chased like rabid dogs from the same black South Africans  they suffered for.

Survivor of xenophobic attack speaks: ‘It’s hard to believe it was the people we know who attacked us.

This is the reason why I try not to judge too much how our elders dealt with things. I usually try to get the full context of the matter somehow.

ALL in all, I doubt that our leaders then were that stupid not understand the consequences of their actions or read the times. One famous Kamuzu speech said this….

“Those who are against me having an open relationship with South Africa, creep there at night to getting help from the same South Africans. Stop being hypocrites”.(paraphrased).

This issue is more complicated than just Malawi opting to support Renamo or having relationship with RSA.

Chatinkha Chidzanja Nkhoma

Let us remember that this was during the Cold War and in Africa it was not Cold but Hot. The Communist nation had their supporters while the Western had their too and were fired up to fight each other. The whole world was split between pro communities led by Russia and anticommunists led by America.

Malawi had to decide which would benefit it, not following the crowd. The pro communists/Socialism insurgents being propped up to overthrow Hasting Kamuzu Band government in Malawi were quickly dealt with(refer to cabinet crises).and war averted on the ground in Malawi.