The DA and the Freedom Front Plus have condemned a comment made by EFF leader Julius Malema that, "We are not calling for the slaughter of white people‚ at least for now." Malema made this comment on Monday after he appeared in the Newcastle Magistrate’s Court on charges of contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act of 1956 for calling on people to occupy vacant land around the country. The DA said Malema’s violent and threatening language had no place in our constitutional democracy. "Indeed‚ the Constitution is founded on the democratic principles of ‘human dignity‚ equality and freedom’ and the fact the country belongs to all those who live in it‚" DA national spokeswoman Phumzile van Damme said. The Freedom Front Plus said that by encouraging people to occupy land illegally‚ Malema was making himself as guilty as those who contravene the laws of SA. "Malema and the EFF should take note that white landowners will not just meekly sit and watch how their land is occupied and taken awa...
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