There’s been a furious reaction of social media to Malema’s remarks at the Youth Day rally

Julius Malema declared that black South Africans have suffered more than any other race.

He rounded on Indian journalists for coming to the defence of the deputy secretary general in the Treasury Ishmael Momoniat after EFF chief whip Floyd Shivambu objected to the presence of a non-African at a Parliamentary committee meeting.

Malema said there’s a tendency among South African Indians  to look down on Africans and that there was a hierarchy of oppression under apartheid.  He also said Indians were better off than mixed race South African called Coloureds, who were in turn better off than Africans.

According to Malema, this is why the liberation struggle was to free blacks in general and Africans in particular.

He went on to say that Africans must never apologize for this, and they must never be scared to say most Indians are racist. 

He also claimed that  the majority of Indians hate Africans.

Malema believes that this a reality Africans have to deal with.

This is not an entirely new issue. A year ago Mama infuriated the Indian community saying they exploited African workers and monopolized the economy of the KwaZulu/Natal province where most of them live. 

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The ANC used its comfortable parliamentary majority to vote down the motion by 214 votes to 126.

It’s the third no confidence motion he’s survived in under a year.

Unusually there were 58 ANC members who did not vote.

It is customary in matters as important as confidence in the president for a three-line whip to be called – forcing all members to go through the division lobby.

The two hour debate took on a confrontational tone when the ultra-left Economic Freedom Fighters demanded a secret ballot, saying ANC members who wanted Zuma out would be intimidated.

EFF deputy leader Floyd Shivambu likened Zuma to a dictator who would resort to killing his opponents

Parliamentary rules do not provide for secret ballots on a no confidence motion.

So, Zuma has won a battle in a much longer war that seen him beaten in a series of humiliating legal defeats.

These setbacks include a Constitutional Ruling that he has improperly enriched himself with non-security improvements to his private residence paid from the public purse.

A Pretoria High Court has ruled against his application to appeal against the reinstatement of nearly 800 charges of corruption, money laundering and racketeering that were dropped by the prosecution authority before he came president.

The Public Protector has found a corrupt  influence over his presidency by  a wealthy Indian family

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They’re adamant that they won’t join any coalition with the ruling African National Congress – and they’ll want cast-r=iron guarantees before entering others.

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EFF Deputy President Floyd Shivambu certainly had more microphones thrust at him at the IEC Results Centre has his party attracted  votes in plush Waterkloof three days ago.

And he was adamant that any deal the  EFF does with the Democratic Alliance to wrest control of the capital from the ANC will not be designed to benefit the residents of that and other salubrious suburbs.

He says the EFF will require written contracts on deliverables to the more needy elements of the population before getting into the problematic political bed with DA.

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