‘South Africa Are Borders Open, Racists Can Go To U.S.’

White settlers in South Africa are free to leave.

That’s according to Julius Malema (@julius_s_malema on X, @julius.malema.sello on IG), founder and president of South Africa’s Pan-Africanist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party, who made these remarks at the annual Sharpeville Massacre Rally on 21 March.

The settlers, who have amassed over 70 per cent of South Africa’s privately owned farmland while only making up a little over 7 per cent of the population, have refused to take US President Donald Trump’s offer to re-settle as refugees in the US despite alleging a ‘white g*nocide’ is waged against them. Instead, they encouraged Trump to punish South Africa’s attempts at rectifying wealth inequality through a new land reform law.

Despite apartheid officially ending in 1994, the regime, which was supported by the US through economic, military and diplomatic means, created stark inequalities that remain today. As a result, Black South Africans, who comprise over 80 per cent of the population, own only 4 per cent of private farmland.

The 1960 Sharpeville Massacre that Malema remarked on represents one of the darkest days during apartheid. On 21 March that year, the regime shot live bullets into a crowd of unarmed protesters who called for abolishing South Africa’s discriminatory pass laws. Apartheid authorities k*lled 69 Black South Africans and wounded nearly 200, including 50 women and children.

Video credit: @effsouthafrica

Sources

https://actsa.org/the-facts-land-reform-in-south-africa/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4187823

https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2025-03-22-in-pics-malema-eff-commemorate-human-rights-day-in-sharpeville

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