By Johnathan Paoli
The Economic Freedom Fighters has rejected the Equality Court’s ruling that found its leader Julius Malema guilty of hate speech, describing the judgment as a deliberate distortion of history and political rhetoric.
EFF spokesperson Sinawo Thambo said the ruling “fundamentally misreads” the context, philosophy and intent of Malema’s words, arguing that the speech was rooted in the liberation tradition, referencing South Africa’s history of structural violence and resistance.
“The language of revolution cannot be sanitised to comfort the sensitivities of those who continue to enjoy the fruits of colonial dispossession and have never experienced racial violence whatsoever,” Thambo said.
The party insisted Malema was not calling for the killing of white people, but highlighting the irreconcilable conflict between white supremacy and Black liberation thought.
Thambo maintained the real violence lay in the daily experiences of landlessness, unemployment and racism endured by Black South Africans.
He confirmed the
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