On Friday, EFF leader Julius Malema called on supporters to occupy land legally, using force if necessary.He was addressing a rally at the Thembalethu Stadium in George in the southern Cape. "You love the EFF when you are in trouble. When the farmers beat you‚ you want the address of the EFF‚" he told supporters. Rallying them to vote for the EFF‚ he added: "When there are no hospitals you want the EFF‚ when your councillors are stealing from you‚ you want the EFF. But when it comes to voting you say ‘we can’t betray Madiba’."Then he turned to the issue of land."No one respects a person who is property-less. It doesn’t matter if the person is white or black. When you’ve got property your confidence comes back. You are not people in the eyes of people who own property‚ they see you as sub-human. They can kill you anytime and say you look like a baboon‚ why? Because you are property-less. All those who are fed to lions and mistaken for baboons are those who are property-less." Malema ...
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