By Amy Musgrave
Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema has been denied a visa to London, with his party describing the move as an administratively orchestrated ban by the British High Commission.
Malema, who was meant to address students at Cambridge University on Saturday, was informed on Wednesday via a letter of regret that his visa would not be processed on time.
According to the EFF, he had been told it would be processed on Wednesday afternoon.
“This is nothing more than an expression of bureaucratic process being used to suppress political dissent and to ban the voices of the EFF from building global solidarity against Western Imperialism,” the party said in a statement.
Malema was invited by the African Society of Cambridge University to address its 11th Annual Cambridge Africa Together Conference, under the theme “The Making of Africa’s Future Presidents”.
“The United Kingdom is not only suppressing academic
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