Charge of treason against Malema must be ‘seriously pursued’: SACP
A charge of treason against Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema must be “seriously pursued”‚ the South African Communist Party says. In a May Day (Workers’ Day) message on Sunday‚ the SACP said it didn’t think Malema knew “one end of a gun-barrel from the other” but that didn’t make his threat of civil war any less sinister. “It is a direct incitement to violence and to the reckless undermining of our constitution‚” the SACP said‚ referring to a statement by Malema that the EFF would deal with a democratically-elected‚ constitutional state “through the barrel of the gun”. “The charge of treason must be seriously pursued‚” the SACP said.It said Malema‚ whom it referred to as the “self-anointed ‘commander-in-chief’” of the EFF – “that party of plunder-preneurs” - strutted around “with an air of impunity‚ and this encourages his followers every week publicly on TV to openly incite arson‚ violence and anarchy”...
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