Malema was speaking at the 1976 June 16 Uprising commemoration at the Alice Campus of the University of Fort Hare today 16 June 2019. Picture: EFF/Twitter
The South African Opposition EFF leader Julius Malema has said white people who sympathies or are friends with blacks or act as if they understand the life of black people will not understand how being black is like.
Malema was addressing the June 16 Uprising Commemoration at the Alice Campus of Fort Hare University today 16 June 2019.
Malema told those who attended his address to commemorate the 16th of June 1976 in which the former apartheid government killed the students as a result of initiating a campaign against Afrikaans as the language of teaching that:
‘white people can do everything to show that they understand the life of black people but they will never be black’.
Malema who said that to be black is to be “hated” explained that white people do not understand the black life to such an extent that even if someone tells them that the child has fallen into the toilet they find it hard to believe because they are accustomed to the toilets at their homes in which the child cannot fall.
Even Slovo [Joe] would not understand what it is like to be black.
Joe Slovo is one of the white leaders who fought apartheid and became minister in the first democratic government under President Nelson Mandela.