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Fascism, race and violence: Why Julius Malema is the modern-day Eugene Terre’blanche

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Julius Malema is exhibiting all the worst characteristics of Eugene Terre'blanche, the white supremacist who 30 years ago used the neo-Nazi AWB to further his racist and separatist brand of violent politics. Pieter du Toit listened to Malema's speech in Senekal last week and considers the similarities between the two men.

On Friday 23 October 2020, Julius Malema launched into one of is his trademark tirades against white South Africans. On a stage in a sweltering Senekal in the eastern Free State, the EFF's so-called commander-in-chief told a couple of hundred supporters he came to the town to resist "white arrogance" and "white tendencies".

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