Malema eyes Advanced degree after graduating with BA, endorsing emancipation through education

EFF leader Julius Malema was conferred with a BA degree Human and Social Studies, specialising in political leadership and citizenship by the University of South Africa on Wednesday evening.

This is what he said after graduating:

“we came here with the sole intention to inspire many other people out there that it is possible. We know that revolutionaries have a responsibility to lead by example and by accumulating knowledge because the more we read the more we realise that we do not know and those who do not read think they know and that is when the country becomes a problem because those in leadership refuse to accumulate knowledge.

I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone else who supported me throughout this journey. My family, my wife (Mantwa) my grandmother (Sarah) and all of those friends who have encouraged me to soldier and complete this degree and I have been admitted now in honours for philosophy.

We do this because we want to accumulate knowledge and inspire more generation. It was not an easy journey, there was a point where I had to write exams, after exams go to court when the ANC persecuted me and throughout that period we had to study and at the same time go through the persecution and many of you will remember that we also had to go through the DC (disciplinary committee) of the ANC studying at the same time, many of you remember that tables we were studying on SARS came and took them and we had to go look for alternative tables to study on and the whole thing was just an intention to destroy an individual and I refused to succumb to the agenda of my enemies and I refused for my enemies to deny my destination.

I am in charge of my destination and no one will determine my destination so we are here to say throughout those difficulties we are happy that we have completed a junior degree, we are now going to honours and will continue to study because studying is permanent.