EFF Rejects ‘Delayed, Lukewarm’ EWN Apology Over Malema Swearing Incident

Riyaz Patel

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has rejected what it calls “the delayed lukewarm Eyewitness News apology,” after senior EWN reporter Barry Bateman was caught on camera swearing at party leader Julius Malema. 

Bateman was among a group of journalists interviewing Malema outside the Hawks’ office Tuesday. The EFF leader was summoned to respond to allegations that he discharged firearm during the party’s 5th birthday celebrations in the Eastern Cape last year. 

 “A white, big white Afrikaner male, stopping me from burying Winnie Mandela? I had to be next to the coffin and no white man was going to stop me from burying Winnie,” Malema said in response to an altercation with a security official at Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s funeral.

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