Dehumanisation: Parliamentarian Julius Malema insults black people: report
August 26 2014 - Johannesburg South Africa. The volatile EFF-MP Julius Malema appears to be an ' equal-opportunity insult-thrower. "
His racial generalisations are usually reserved for the white race but, on Monday after a hearing on his R16 million tax debt, he had a few choice words about blacks.
"It was fortunate that white police officers arrived at the National Assembly when the EFF was refusing to leave because they had a better grasp of the law," Malema said.
"I mean, we were in Parliament where freedom of speech is unlimited," he told reporters outside the High Court in Pretoria.
"You call police. Fortunately white police came. They know the law unlike our fellow brothers."
Malema said when the police arrived at the National Assembly they questioned why they (the police) were there.
"When they arrived there, they said to them, 'well, what do we do?' because these guys here, they are protesting at their workplace, they are non-violent, they are not beating up anybody.
"'As far as we are concerned, we as police we also do not have anything to do with what happens inside Parliament. So, why do you call us here?'" he said.
He was referring to an incident that happened on Thursday, when Malema objected to President Jacob Zuma's reply to a question about when he was going to repay part of the R246 million spent on security upgrades to his private Nkandla homestead in KwaZulu-Natal.
National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete ordered all the MPs wearing red overalls out of parliament after they began to disrupt proceedings and started chanting "pay back the money".
The MPs refused to leave, continuing to chant and shout slogans, and riot police were called in to help remove them.
About his failure to pay taxes, Malema said, "black people don't know this law of tax," and insisted that most of the people around him owed the taxman.
http://www.enca.com/malema-equal-opportunity-insult-thrower-disses-black-people
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