Economic Freedom Fighter (EFF) leader Julius Malema says his party won’t support the Land Expropriation Act in its current form.
Addressing a crowd of supporters at Dlomo Dam in Sharpeville as part of its “Sharpeville Day” commemoration, Malema said those who died 55 years ago in Sharpeville should be honoured.
“Today, we gather here in the historic township of Sharpeville, a place that carries the blood of our ancestors, the pain of our past, and the resilience of our struggle. We do not come here to commemorate a so-called “Human Rights Day,” but to remember and honour the sacrifice of those who fell on March 21, 1960, at the hands of a murderous apartheid regime,” Malema told his supporters.
Julius Malema rejects Land Expropriation Act
“We call it Sharpeville Massacre Day because it is a day of struggle and sacrifice and not a day where opportunists and racist should be allowed to hijack this day to claim that it represents their Human Rights which have been violated,” he said.
The EFF leader attacked President Cyril Ramaphosa, accusing him of misleading people over the Land Expropriation Act.
“President Cyril Ramaphosa has assented to this bill and they want us to believe it is a step towards land justice,” Julius Malema said.
“But we must be clear, this bill is nothing more than a legislative scam designed to mislead our people. It does not represent a radical departure from the past, it merely aligns our expropriation laws with the 1996 constitution, which has always prioritised the interests of land owners over the dispossessed masses.”
Julius Malema said the EFF will not support the act in its current form and will continue to fight in parliament.
“Ramaphosa has signed something called the Expropriation Act, he is pretending to be expropriating land. That is nothing else except that fact that they were trying to align that act with the current constitution, We don’t support the act in its current form,” he said.
“Ramaphosa says the act is going to help him to expropriate hijacked buildings… we don’t want hijacked buildings, they are rotten. We want a fertile land. We must expropriate the mines, and the farms and expropriate land that is of value to us, not a rotten land.”
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