JULIUS MALEMA: The time for reconciliation is over. Now is the time for justice
'We invite you, not to pick up spears and guns, we invite you to come to the table'
Speech by Julius Malema in the land expropriation debate in Parliament: Almost 400 years ago, a criminal by the name of Jan van Riebeeck landed in our native land and declared an already occupied land by the native population as a no-man’s land. Van Riebeeck, a first descendant of the Dutch to arrive in the Cape would later lead a full-blown colonial genocide, antiblack land dispossession criminal project, arguing that simply because our people could not produce title deeds, this land, that they have been living in for more than a thousand years, was not their own. Essentially, he was disregarding their humanity, treating them as part of the animal world. To him and those that would come after him, Africans were less than human, not deserving of land ownership. On this basis, the project of disempowering Africans of the ability to call this place their land was initiated in blood and pain. Millions ended up in humiliating, conquered township conditions of being cheap and disposable ...
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