EFF leader, Julius Malema, says Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is the president South Africa never had. He was speaking at the official memorial service of struggle icon in Brandfort in the Free State on Wednesday.
Madikizela Mandela passed away last week at the age of 81 and will be buried on Saturday.
“Winnie Mandela, the president we never had. Winnie Mandela the president we were denied to have by men who suffered serious ego politics, who will not allow themselves to be led by a woman. Winnie Mandela was a thinker. She had to think and act and that is what she did. Please don’t be wheelbarrows. You must be thinkers. Don’t live a cowardly life. When I walk here as a product of Winnie Mandela, I am not scared of anything because I don’t live a lie.”
Economic Freedom Fighters leader has commended residents of Majwemasweu township in Brandfort in the Free State for welcoming the late struggle icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela at the height of apartheid struggle.
Madikizela-Mandela spent nine years in the township where she was banished in 1977 with her youngest daughter, Zindzi. Malema said Madikizela-Mandela was a principled leader.
“It’s not an exaggeration that the isolation of the people of Brandfort is best represented by the fact that her prison cell which is house number 802 across the street from us is dilapidated yet the statue of Paul Kruger is decorated at church square in Pretoria, receiving protection from a democratic government. They could not protect the house yet they protect the statue of Paul Kruger.”
‘First female SA president must come from EFF’
Malema says the first female president of South Africa must come from the EFF. He says the country should learn from Mama Winnie that all women must be respected.
“When she shouted Viva ANC in the 80s, all men went under the table. She stood alone as a sign that women can actually do better than men. The first female president of SA must come from the EFF to demonstrate that we are not scared of women, we see them as equals. We don’t see them like he ANC as a tool to be used in the bedroom. We see them as a soldier, equal to all soldiers.”
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