MALEMA: ‘TRUMP IS A HITLER’

ECONOMIC Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has wysed South Africa’s government to say minute for the United States and koppel stronger ties with China instead. 

This amid Mzansi’s deteriorating relationship with the United States.

Addressing journalists in Johannesburg, Malema said the Democratic Alliance (DA), which previously frowned upon SA's relationship with China, had undergone what he termed a “Damascus moment” and now supports Pretoria’s ties with Beijing.

Malema wysed: “We are saying to you, trade with China. Let’s work with China. The DA said China is an undesirable partner, and all of that. After eating Uber Eats, he (DA leader John Steenhuisen) was in China, he wanted to eat with those things, chopsticks…”

At the press briefing where Malema referred to United States President Donald Trump as a “modern-day Adolf Hitler”, the EFF leader said his party could not be blamed for the nosediving of relations between Pretoria and Washington.

During President Cyril Ramaphosa’s visit to the US in May, Trump paused their meeting to show a video montage of Malema chanting “Kill the Boer”, subsequently questioning why the EFF leader had not been arrested for using the controversial liberation-era slogan.

“The footage that is being played at the Oval Office is being used to peddle lies about South Africa, and that cannot be used to persuade us from our stance because there is nothing we are saying that will strengthen the case for South Africa against Trump’s position, which is very clear, of isolating South Africa. It doesn’t matter what you say or do,” said Malema.

“The man has taken a decision to go against South Africa, not for what the EFF says, for the South African government's position against Israel, taking the Israeli government to the International Court of Justice. That is what has offended the USA. The relationship of South Africa with China, Russia, Brazil and India — our participation in BRICS — is what has offended the USA.

“We don’t think there is anything we have done or said that will worsen the situation between South Africa and the Adolf Hitler of a modern day called Donald Trump. It doesn’t matter how many times you go to the Oval Office, our president went there with his clowns to try and explain themselves, and it didn’t work,” he said.