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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He was speaking as national day reception in Pretoria where the official South African representative made not a single critical remark.

Bilateral relations between South Africa and Israel are prickly.

However Ambassador Lior Keinan notes that trade between the countries reaches almost a billion dollars annually.

He advises the many South Africans he meets with a genuine desire to experience Israel.

“Get a plane, walk the streets of Jerusalem, see the beaches of Tel Aviv, enjoy a meal at one of  our world class eateries or markets,” he says

Assistant director for Middle Eastern Affairs Zanele Ngoqo takes a sanguine view of the future:

“There is a possibility of closer collaboration between South Africa and Israel, on the Ferer principle, things cannot get worse, they can only get better,” she says.

She recalls the important role played by many Jews and Israelis in South Africa’s liberation struggle.

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